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As usual, the summer has been extremely busy on the farm and it has seemed all but impossible to keep up with the internet side of things.  If you all can bear with us, I will try to get everything caught up over the weekend and share with you the happenings of the farm!  ThanksContinue reading “CSA Post Catch Up”

Its getting exciting – the CSA vegetables will start in just over a month.  Don’t forget to sign up.  We hope you will be able to join us this year.

It’s been said that for the greatest success in potato production, you should plant them on Good Friday.  And with Good Friday upon us, I thought I would share with you the way we have planted potatoes (3000 pounds last year) in the past. Let me introduce you to the multi-functional holding, lifting and transportingContinue reading “Plant Potatoes on Good Friday”

We are so happy to have lettuce and spinach coming up in the greenhouse.  It seems that we are going to be eating fresh local produces very soon! With the CSA signups coming up in a month and the farmer’s market starting soon after we are happy to have farming season upon us. -Katie

Its time to kick it in high gear.  We put up a new greenhouse last fall and a high tunnel last spring.  Pretty soon we will be moving another high tunnel over to the farmstead and building a brand new one. -Katie

Did you know that we’ve been growing strawberries in the greenhouse we put up in the fall? Check out the UNL Department of Agronomy and Horticulture’s website discussing the project at https://agronomy.unl.edu/cea-grant for more information. -Katie  

    It was an exciting weekend on the Pekarek farm – we got a new Potato Planter!!  This baby should take our many many man hours of back breaking work and mechanize!  Ryan went down near St. Joseph Missouri to bring this pretty little machine home.  We should be using this baby in justContinue reading “It’s a Potato Planter!”

Ryan’s off to Missouri make our lives a little more mechanized…  Any guesses on what he’s going to bring home?

It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for…. Signups for the 2014 CSA are here. If you ate your veggies as part of the 2012 or 2013 CSA, we will mail you the forms to sign up.  Or you can do one of the following: You can print the signup sheet below and mail itContinue reading “Now’s your chance…. sign up for your weekly Vegetable Subscription!”

Well, it’s March 5th and just a couple of days ago the high temperature for the day was 5 degrees F – sounds like farming weather right?  Around here, it’s always farming weather.  Just because it gets cold doesn’t mean we’ve hung up our farming overalls for the winter.  In fact, we’ve been working hardContinue reading “Is Winter Over Yet?”