We are excited here at Pekarek’s Produce to announce the 2016 CSA! Pekarek’s Produce invites you to receive fresh, seasonal, flavorful, healthful vegetables. We select vegetable varieties for their taste, raise them under the best possible conditions, pick them at the peak of ripeness, and carefully wash and pack them for you. Pekarek’s Produce CSAContinue reading “Announcing the 2016 Pekarek’s Produce CSA”
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A Muddy Mess
It’s beautiful outside! The sun is shining and the wind is blowing. It makes the plastic on the greenhouses flap and slap like living things. Everything around here is brown and muddy, not a bit of green. But it’s time to change that! It’s been a muddy mess around here. It’s been fun just evenContinue reading “A Muddy Mess”
It Snowed!
It’s been interesting around here, to say the least. Sometimes the weather people miss the prediction by a million miles and other times – they nail it! We were definitely spared the worst of last week’s storm. We are guessing we ended up in the 6 to 7 inch range. It’s a bit hard toContinue reading “It Snowed!”
Winter 2015 (3 of 3)
High tunnels are always an interesting topic around here. Last winter (2014/2015) we were outside in coveralls building high tunnels. In spring of 2015 we were hurriedly finishing everything up for the growing season, so we took a couple of short cuts on the high tunnels. They should each have roll-up or roll-down sides, butContinue reading “Winter 2015 (3 of 3)”
Winter 2015 (2 of 3)
In December, the outdoor farming activities began to slow down. The high tunnels kept producing and we worked on improving our winter storage abilities. Early winter saw us digging (and picking up by HAND) the rest of the potatoes in the field. It’s time for us to start working on the 2016 CSA. We’ve alreadyContinue reading “Winter 2015 (2 of 3)”
Winter 2015 (1 of 3)
Well folks, it’s catch up time on the blog. We often get the question in the winter – what do you do? It’s kind of a crazy question to us, because from our view there seems to be no end to the work! So in the next few weeks we will get you caught upContinue reading “Winter 2015 (1 of 3)”
Week 18 – 2015 Pekarek’s Produce CSA
Hey Folks, Wow! Can you believe this is the last week of the 2015 CSA? We hope you have enjoyed it as much as we have. In this final week, please make sure you take a pie pumpkin. Some of you have made dozens if not hundreds of pies using fresh pumpkins. But for othersContinue reading “Week 18 – 2015 Pekarek’s Produce CSA”
2016 CSA – Week 14
Hey Folks, This week has a little bit of a “farming as usual” feel to it. We no longer farm dawn until dusk – now it’s more like sun up to “whenever we turn the lights off.” I’m not sure I appreciate the person who decided it is a good idea to have lights onContinue reading “2016 CSA – Week 14”
Week 11 – 2015 Pekarek’s Produce CSA
Hey Folks! It’s hard to believe that it’s that time again… time when the days begin to get shorter, the nights may cool off, and the kiddos go back to school. This week marks the start of a new school year for our children who are entering pre-school, Kindergarten, and 2nd grades as well asContinue reading “Week 11 – 2015 Pekarek’s Produce CSA”
Week 10 – 2015 CSA
We are excited to tell you that we finally caught a rain on the farm. The storms have mostly been going around us since early July, but we got a little over an inch on Tuesday morning. There is nothing better than being able to say it rained in August! To a certain extent, weContinue reading “Week 10 – 2015 CSA”