Veggielution

’Tis the season (for tractor work, trellis takedown, transition)

South Bay solidarity with our North Bay neighbors

As seems to be the case more often than not these days, this week was dominated by natural disaster. The North Bay wildfires have been at the forefront of our minds, especially with the extent to which poor air quality in San Jose has affected…

A mow-mentous occasion!

It was a momentous week on the farm, in more ways than one, but the front page news of the week is that our mower is back in action! After a long series of setbacks, I finally was able to repair it and get some mowing done yesterday for the first time since May. This means it’s go time…

Fall is here! (well, at least according to the calendar)

Join us on the farm tomorrow

After the record-breaking heat wave that hit the Bay Area over the weekend, we returned to the farm this week to much cooler weather here in San Jose, but news of natural disasters in other parts of the country and around the world. Alongside ever-worsening political upheaval…

Farm Stand is CLOSED tomorrow: stay home and stay cool!

While the week started out pretty normally, with our Tuesday harvest and some productive field work with our interns, the heat wave has definitely changed our plans for today and tomorrow. There is an excessive heat advisory, with…

You won’t even recognize the Farm Stand!

This week saw more major progress in our tomatoes, as we finished installing trellis on…

Summer is still going strong!

Another week has come and gone and here we are in the middle of August! This week marks the halfway point in our Farm Box CSA, which runs through the end of October, so while the summer is almost over for our interns, we are still in the height of the growing season. This…

Cool as 113 pounds of cucumber

This week’s overcast mornings and cooler days were a welcome relief from the last few weeks of hot weather, and we took advantage of it to get tons of work done in the tomatoes. In just two mornings of work, we staked and trellised 5 beds of our second tomato planting, and…