Hello Folks! Happy Independence Day! Well, happy 5th of July – but it’s gonna be a good one. I know some of you are as tired as we are after visiting some of the Independence Day festivities around town and lighting off fireworks! I know it was way past our bed time when we madeContinue reading “2017 Week 5 – Weekly Vegetable Subscription”
Category Archives: Eat Well – Eat Pekarek’s Produce
2017 Week 4 – Weekly Vegetable Subscription
Hello Folks! As usual, the farm is hopping with activity. This is one of the few years that we have been able to say that we are keeping up with irrigation on the farm. Ryan is out at all hours (even in the dark) turning on water, moving hoses, and turning off water, but itContinue reading “2017 Week 4 – Weekly Vegetable Subscription”
Week 3 – 2017 Pekarek’s Produce CSA
Hello Folks! We are glad to say the weather has calmed down here this week! We have been busy in the tunnels weeding, hoeing and cleaning things up. We have been tearing out some of the outside crops and plastic mulch torn up by the hail. We’ve done some seeding and watering in the greenhouse.Continue reading “Week 3 – 2017 Pekarek’s Produce CSA”
2017 Vegetable Subscription – Week 2
Hello folks, Well, it’s been an interesting week on the farm! A lot of work has been accomplished. Everyone had lots of fun hoeing (joke), but the fields are looking beautiful and nearly weed free. We filled black trays with soil and seeded cabbage and cauliflower for the fall. All totaled, there were approximately 11,000Continue reading “2017 Vegetable Subscription – Week 2”
2017 CSA – Week 1
Hello Folks! Welcome to the 2017 Pekarek’s Produce Weekly Vegetable Subscription (CSA)! We appreciate your support and look forward to sharing our yummy, fresh vegetables with you through the coming year – THANK YOU! You can pick up your box every Wednesday at: Winter Wonderland in Seward from 3 – 7 pm Schillingbridge TapContinue reading “2017 CSA – Week 1”
Plastic, Potatoes, and a Mantis
Hey Folks! We’ve got that feeling on the farm. That excited feeling that it is about to begin…I know the weather is a little crazy and that wind could knock a person down. But my calendar says that in the next week or so the greenhouse will be full! We’ve already got things planted inContinue reading “Plastic, Potatoes, and a Mantis”
Catch up time!
Each year, we give thanks for the winter, which gives a little break from the dawn til dusk pace of the farm. And each winter, we anxiously await the dawn of spring. Well, it’s almost spring and we are picking up the pace on the farm! In the next few weeks, we will update theContinue reading “Catch up time!”
Sign Up for Your Weekly Vegetable Subscription (CSA)!
It’s time… to sign up for your weekly vegetable subscription (CSA)! For more information, visit the Weekly Vegetable Subscription (CSA) page or Check out the flyer
Is it Spring yet?
Oh my goodness, I’m sitting here at 7:30 in the morning and it’s still dark. It snowed yesterday and now its 8 oF. On a plus note it looks like it should be 60 tomorrow – huh? We are getting the itch around here to be growing again. We have a few tomatoes started inContinue reading “Is it Spring yet?”
I want to make a pie!
Have you ever made a pie? I mean a realllly GOOD pie. To be honest, before I married a vegetable farmer, I had never made a true pumpkin pie – one from scratch that is. One of the things I’ve learned is that most pie pumpkin filling from a can is actually made from aContinue reading “I want to make a pie!”