The greenhouse is feeling a little empty since we planted lettuce. The tomatoes and cucumbers are growing nicely down the center, but the benches are awfully empty. Luckily, Ryan and crew are hard at work preparing to fill those benches back up. Margret counts trays and prepares labels while Ryan fills them with soil. SoonContinue reading “An empty greenhouse”
Category Archives: Eat Well – Eat Pekarek’s Produce
Planting Lettuce
The greenhouse looks a little empty right now. We had a relatively small amount of plants in there and today, we planted 31 trays of lettuce or approximately 2100 plants. We planted multiple varieties. First we moved them out of the greenhouse onto hayracks. We gave everyone a drink of water – yes, at Pekarek’sContinue reading “Planting Lettuce”
New in 2016 – Nebraska Heart Institute CSA Pick Up Location
Nebraska Heart Institute in Lincoln is our newest Pekarek’s Produce CSA pick up location! This is exciting news! New in 2016, Pekarek’s Produce will be offering a south Lincoln CSA pick up location. Pekarek’s Produce has partnered with CHI Health to offer you the opportunity to participate in a community supported agriculture (CSA) program on theContinue reading “New in 2016 – Nebraska Heart Institute CSA Pick Up Location”
2016 CSA Flyer and Membership Form
Here it is folks! The 2016 CSA Flyer and Membership Form.
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”