Happy New Year!
Here at Painted Sage, we are busy updating the website, getting ready for the Pinedale Farmers Market on February 12th, planning crop schedules and preparing the greenhouses for the growing season. Rows are being tilled, compost added in anticipation of next month’s seeding. Keep your eyes and ears peeled! We have lots of new plans in the works.
Also, there is still time to get your 2012 Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Shares. With a preseason payment, you purchase a “share” of our season’s harvest. You are dedicating yourself to being our customer for the year, thus providing us a secure market — a welcome measure of certainty in the fickle world of farming! We, in turn, dedicate ourselves to being your farmers, providing you with a variety of organically raised vegetables. Farm fresh, local produce delivered direct to your door!
Tentative 2012 Crop Availability
Arugula, Asian Greens, Beets, Broccoli, Brussel Sprouts, Cabbage, Carrots, Cauliflower, Chard, Cilantro, Cress, Cucumbers, Dill, Garlic, Green Beans, Kale, Leeks, Lettuce, Onions, Parsley, Peppers, Potatoes, Radishes, Salad Mix, Scallions, Shallots, Spinach, Squash, Sugar Snap Peas, Tomatoes, and Turnips.
Springtime At Painted Sage
It seems like Winter went on forever. We received more snow than we have since the early 1990′s. John Deere and I got the road cleared 2 and 3 and sometimes 4 times a week! Enthusiasm for plowing wained! The 2011 Veggie Shares are sold out now! You can find our local, farm fresh produce at the Pinedale and Marbleton/Big Piney Farmers Markets this year. Or call the Farm and see what we have available.
Temperatures are about 10 degrees below average and it certainly shows from the germination rates we have seen this spring. We have replanted snap peas, pac choi, kale and our greens mix. We are about 30 days off of where we were last year.
Potatoes Greensprouting
The onions are in the process of being planted and the potatoes will go in over the next few days. We are still harvesting salad greens that were planted last September as well as leeks.
Hakurei Turnips -- Late April
I finally believe the snow is really going to melt and go away until this fall. Here are some photos taken just two weeks ago.
April 23, 2011
April 23, 2011
Check out the 2011 Intern Page and meet our newest Farm Team Member, William Newman-Wise. Yeah!
Winter is Upon Us
Where did the year go? We started the year with 5 shares which has grown to 13 shares and 1 workshare. We are now feeding 15 families a week…that includes our family.
We were very busy…tilling and planting in February and March, harvesting and more planting in April and May, and in June arrived our incredible interns…Zoe Larissa and Zoe Elizabeth. Steph and Holden were our resident interns as well. What a great summer we had growing vegetables, raising turkeys and hogs and harvesting eggs. We had Scone Saturdays, and Farmune dinners on Friday nights. We had campfires in intern village and even had a boat trip to New Fork Lake. Farmers Markets in Pinedale, Jackson, Big Piney and Bondurant.
Greenhouse 2 was built, cultivated and began producing in October. We will be growing year ’round, trialing different varieties for cold tolerance. We have already begun to receive applications for our internship program and hope to work with the NRCS on another greenhouse for 2011. Exciting times at Painted Sage Farm.
Spring Is In The Air!
Oh, the sweet smell of composted manure…farmer’s gold. The hens have been moved to the small hoophouse for fertilizing and pest control duties. Since the days have grown longer, the hens are laying oodles of eggs…we have 2 or 3 more egg shares available…call or email if you’d like one.
Holden arrived home in January. Mag flew to Sacramento, hopped in Hodie’s car and 2.5 hours later we were in Reno…now that’s the kind of California trip I can handle.
Here’s Hodie getting started on the huge pile of composted manure. First, Hodie and Kendall broke up the half frozen pile and then Hodie and Mag spread it out.
The Blackburns kindly loaned us their rototiller and Holden went nuts mixing in the manure. What was left was a fluffy batch of soil.
This will be the last time we rototill. We will make permanent beds and only shallow till the top 2″ with compost and amendments after each crop is harvested.
Planting of scallions, chinese cabbage, pac choi, radishes, and turnips will begin this weekend. Average daytime temps in the greenhouse…72 degrees. Soil temp…50 degrees and rising. Spring has sprung at the Painted Sage Greenhouse.
Late Fall, 2009
The greenhouse continues to produce spinach, turnips, salad greens, kale, chard and radishes. We have high hopes that the broccoli will start to flower in the next week or so for a late November crop.
We’re also happy to see the Napa Aichi Cabbage starting to head and the leeks are now about 20″ tall.
