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CSA News Letter

on Aug 30 in CSA News, Farm News by Josie

Is summer gone?  I feel like our summer crops are having the hardest time getting ripe with this cool weather, but it is hard to say bad things about wonderful weather.  The crops have all been a little late this year, but they are coming.  Melons start this week along with more tomatoes, peppers and corn will show back up in a few weeks.  Overall we have had an amazing harvest, as you can tell from the bags of goodies you carry away every week.  We have 5 more weeks of CSA pick-ups left and then the harvest festival. 

Harvest Festival is October 9th 

The harvest festival is where you pick up your last veggie share for the season and have a great time.  Please come and celebrate the wonderful harvest with us.  This is a pot luck party with live music, cider pressing, tee-shirt fun and so much more.  Please bring a dish to share at the potluck and your plates and forks.  You will pick up your last veggie share so bring a box…think winter squash.  The events start at 4pm and run until 7pm.  Peaceful Belly farm is located on Broken horn Road. click here for amap.  Go past Hidden Springs on Seamans Gulch rd, go straight at the stop sign on Dry Creek road.  Seamans Gulch road becomes Broken Horn. 

Chickens- If you would like whole frozen chickens please send me an email at peacefulbelly@yahoo.com we can have them at your CSA pick up

        The new farm has been a joy to expand into, while teaching Clay and I so much about soil, birds and family.  Last week we watch three Peregrine Falcon fledged their nest.  We have heard the babies all spring and summer cry for food and seeing them fly and play for the first time was amazing.  We now have a resident barn owl, a yellow belly marmet (that live in an big rusty pipe and loves romaine lettuce, he has been seen with whole heads in his mouth), a new family of pheasants, four deer (not so happy about them), a young coyote, two badgers, a skunk, millions of quail, hawks and amazing little birds.  Every day the zinnias are covered with humming birds and humming bird mouths.  A huge flock of red wing black birds live in the corn and fly around the farm in a swarm during the day.  I have been picking a few times and have had over 100 birds fly right over me or around me inches from my face, amazing.  We have a pack of Starlings that fly around the farm like a school of sardines and the Hawks fly in and out of them just like Sharks, this is Clay’s favorite activity to watch.  We have had mountain lion tracks and have a family of wild turkeys that we get to see on our way to work.    We never could have imagined the wildlife that we would be farming with and the simple joy it brings us.