Hello all!
Seth and I have good news today- Dillwood Farms is here to stay! We are selling 22 acres of the land but we are keeping 38 acres to farm. While the majority of farmable land is on the plot that we are purchasing, our barn housing all of our equipment and three high tunnels are located on the plot that we sold. That means we will be spending a lot of time this spring and summer moving everything over to our land. We have one high tunnel moved already, and will be working on the second and third soon. Then we will be moving all of our tractors, equipment, tools, fertilizers, etc. over here to some sort of barn that we will also be constructing this spring/summer.
This year is going to be very busy for us and quite an adjustment. We are having to make several changes to the CSA as a result.
Here are the main details/changes- I will post the complete information on the website and email it out soon.
- We will be doing a farm pick-up only. We still want to have our presence in Atlanta and the Brookhaven area where we have been for the past two years and so we will be at the Brookhaven Farmers Market on Saturdays from 9am-noon. The first market is March 29th.
- We are dropping the price to $25/week in addition to offering only full shares. We found that $30 worth of produce was sometimes difficult to use in one week, so we are dropping the price and decreasing the amount of produce in each weeks share. Since we are operating on less acreage this season we are offering fewer memberships, and so are only offering full shares. We encourage splitting a share with a neighbor or friend, alternating weeks, if a full share would be too much food for your family.
-Pick-ups will be on Wednesdays afternoons instead of Fridays.
-The program will start in May this year instead of April.
In addition to the Brookhaven Farmers Market, we will be doing the Tucker Farmers Market on Thursdays from 4-8pm. The first market is April 3rd. We will also start the Snellville Farmers Market on Saturdays from 8am-noon in June. The first market is June 1st.
We are grateful for all of your support and hope to see you out at the markets/farm this season.
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Farm For Sale + Winter in Review
Hi all!
It has been awhile since I've posted an update about the farm and while it has been our slowest winter yet, there has been a big thing happening...
If you were a CSA member that picked up your share at the farm last year, you might have noticed the For Sale signs on the corners of the property that went up last fall. If not, here is the announcement that the farm is indeed for sale. Seth and I live and operate the farm on the property, however we are not the owners of it. We knew there was a possibility that this would happen, and so it was no surprise.
There are several possible outcomes. Two we believe are most likely are:
Having said that, until the farm officially sells, we are keeping operations running as normal. I have not posted CSA information for 2014 yet because there is in offer on the farm at the moment and we want to see what happens with that before we make any big plans. If the offer does not go through, we will do a monthly CSA program at the farm only starting in May until we have more news. My hope is that we can operate the program similar to previous years, but I cannot really say yet if that will be a possibility.
I hope by early this spring we'll know more about our CSA and farmer's markets. So, stay tuned and bear with us these next few months as we go through this process. I will post another update as soon as we know anything official.
In the mean time, here are some photos from our winter:
This week were are doing a lot of planting- mainly seedlings and filling our high tunnels. We planted carrots Monday and started lettuce, fennel, and kale seedlings. Today, Seth is working on getting another high tunnel ready for planting.
We're staying busy and trying to get things ready for spring as we await the decision on the sale of the farm. Hopefully I will have some good news in the next couple of weeks!
It has been awhile since I've posted an update about the farm and while it has been our slowest winter yet, there has been a big thing happening...
If you were a CSA member that picked up your share at the farm last year, you might have noticed the For Sale signs on the corners of the property that went up last fall. If not, here is the announcement that the farm is indeed for sale. Seth and I live and operate the farm on the property, however we are not the owners of it. We knew there was a possibility that this would happen, and so it was no surprise.
There are several possible outcomes. Two we believe are most likely are:
- Only certain parcels of the property sell, and we stay on the main parcel of land where the house and the majority of the farmable land is located. The farm would then buy that piece of land and we would be here permanently.
- The entire farm sells and we move else where.
Having said that, until the farm officially sells, we are keeping operations running as normal. I have not posted CSA information for 2014 yet because there is in offer on the farm at the moment and we want to see what happens with that before we make any big plans. If the offer does not go through, we will do a monthly CSA program at the farm only starting in May until we have more news. My hope is that we can operate the program similar to previous years, but I cannot really say yet if that will be a possibility.
I hope by early this spring we'll know more about our CSA and farmer's markets. So, stay tuned and bear with us these next few months as we go through this process. I will post another update as soon as we know anything official.
In the mean time, here are some photos from our winter:
Late last fall- we started harvesting the first of our broccoli.
Seth washing carrots in December for market.
We were able to escape for a late honeymoon to Playa del Carmen, Mexico in mid- November. Not sure why we agreed to taking this photo, but it makes for a good memory:)
Our little goats remain as precious as ever. Here Clifton is showing off that he's king of the mountain.
For Christmas we went to Jackson Hole, Wyoming to visit family. What a gorgeous place.
January brought us some chilly weather, but some gorgeous sunrises.
Some windy weather blew over a section of the goat's fence- they always love to come on the porch when they get out (after raiding the food bin first, of course).
Our compost was delivered last week. I'm always amazed by the unloading process. I mean, the back wheels of the truck are off the ground!
I did get caught for a few hours in the "Snowpocalypse" in Atlanta while doing some restaurant deliveries last Tuesday, but fortunately made it back safely and enjoyed the snow at the farm.
Vegetables are amazing- here are our collards covered in snow. They survived single digit temperatures and snow! We were able to harvest 45 pounds yesterday.
Fun in the snow- January 29th.
We started a new (for us anyway) technique to seed starting: soil blocks. The perks of soil blocks are that the seedlings don't go through transplant shock when planted in the ground. They also do not get root bound because the air acts as a barrier to the roots and they stop growing until they're planted in more soil.
Little lettuce seeds germinating. They're pelleted-which is the white coating. Makes planting seeds a lot faster and easier. It took me almost double the time to plant non-pelleted lettuce seeds as it did to plant these guys.
This week were are doing a lot of planting- mainly seedlings and filling our high tunnels. We planted carrots Monday and started lettuce, fennel, and kale seedlings. Today, Seth is working on getting another high tunnel ready for planting.
We're staying busy and trying to get things ready for spring as we await the decision on the sale of the farm. Hopefully I will have some good news in the next couple of weeks!
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