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| Seasons Changing This was a tough year, 2011. A small blueberry crop, a very late start to most of the vegetable crops, never ending mechanical failures, an incredibly cool summer. Despite all this we still had a bumper crop of strawberries, a decent crop of raspberries and blackberries. We also put away a lot of nice storage onions and shallots. The melons were the sweetest and most plentiful we have ever had, we also had an amazingly uninterrupted harvest of cauliflower, broccoli and cabbage. Most of the failures can be attributed to the challenging weather. We can claim much of our success was because of a dedicated and hardworking farm crew who stayed late on many harvest days, who picked up the pace when it was clear we were not going to finish in time. The crew who worked on their days off and got the market truck off to market in a timely manner or, on some days, off at all. Our successes in 2011 can also be attributed to our great costumers. The costumers who bought our greens despite the holes, who ate the carrots despite how ugly many of them were. And the customers who made our labor feel appreciated every time you visited our farm or farmers market stand. We hope you got a fair share of this years' harvest and hope you'll join us in the 2012 season. We plan on offering our CropShares for pickup at the farm again in 2012. Limited shares are available so sign up early. We are also prepping fields now for a U-pick strawberry patch. Hopefully they will be ready in mid to late June. We should be at the farmers market and always at the farm stand, plus you may be already enjoying our produce which we sell to many local stores, including: Kiva wine and booksellers and Sundance Natural foods. We are also in the process of doing some major renovation in our blueberry fields. This, with other strategies are ensuring a great crop of blueberries for the 2012 season. We plan on growing all the same great crops we offered this year, plus more. Our farmstand remains open with frozen berries, nuts, eggs, various root crops and of course greens, and other produce picked fresh all through winter. Currently in the freezer we have: frozen raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, plus a limited supply of blueberries. Come by anytime 9-6 daily. |
McKenzie River Farm
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Farm Stand Stop by any time of year to pick-up fresh fruits and veggies, honey, nuts and other dried, preserved and frozen goods. Blueberries Get em fresh or frozen and at the farm stand. U-pick Generally speaking we're talking about blueberries but we also u-pick green beans, and have an heirloom pumpkins and winter squash u-pick patch in the fall with over 25 varieties of squash and pumpkins. Not to mention strawberries, oops I guess I did mention it. |
Farmers Market bringing you the freshest vegetables within a days harvest time to a neighborhood near you. About The Farm A commitment to growing as much of our own food for our family, and providing the same quality and variety we require, to our friends and neighbors. Crew A group of rugged, nonconformist, sunbeaten, greasy handed, health concerned, self appointed spokepeople for a non existant demographic. Have A Question? Contact us |
