Hello everyone. We’ve been busy planning for next season and wanted to provide more details on where and when our vegetables will be available:

Our produce will be available to friends and family mid-week, on a first-come, self-serve basis. Details still need to be ironed out, but the general plan is as follows:

• We will notify you by email early in the week about what vegetables are available.
• You will respond, letting us know what and how much you want.
• We will then have things available for pick-up and payment on a first-come, self-serve basis mid-week at our house.

This will be a no-commitment arrangement. You won’t be obligated to place an order, so you can decide on a week-by-week basis whether you want anything, and if so, what and how much. Prices will be comparable to Farmers’ Market prices, and hopefully the convenience of being able to request specific items and then pick them up right in the neighborhood will be a benefit.

Right now we’re trying to gauge interest in this. So let us know if you’d like to be included on the notification list, if you want to talk about it in more detail, or if you know of someone else who might be interested.

Who knows? Maybe The Family Table Farm will be growing your food next summer!

Cheers,

Mike and Lisel

We started preparing for next season in late November. The field had been in pasture for a long time, so the first thing it needed was an irrigation system. Tom had already installed overhead sprinklers for the fields already in production, and he wanted to do the same for this new field.

We began by digging trenches for the main and supply lines. Luckily, the ground had not yet frozen, so we managed to get all the trenches dug fairly quickly. But then winter hit. The weather turned cold and snowy before we could get the pipe laid, so the project’s on hold until things warm up and dry out. Once they do, we’ll lay the pipe, install valves, risers, and sprinkler heads, and wire the valves to the controllers.

The ground will then be ready for plowing and disking, after which we will form the beds and install the drip system. We’ve chosen to use drip because of its efficiency and reduced tendency to promote weed growth, and because we plan to use plastic mulch on many of the beds, which precludes overhead sprinkling.
That’s all for now.