News From the Farm

Full Sun Farm in Sandy Mush
It’s been a nice week since we last corresponded. We’ve gotten some rain, so no irrigating over the past week. Last Thursday we had a wonderful day dealing with onions & garlic. The loft of our barn was FULL of onions and garlic on drying racks after being harvested a […]

News from the Farm – July 16, 2016

Vanessa and bees at Full Sun Farm
Hope everyone had a great holiday weekend. We spent the weekend catching bees and harvesting potatoes! We had a big crew out here to help: some CSA worker members! and a group of kids attending a farm camp. With all the many hands we were able to harvest about 2,000# […]

News from the Farm – July 9, 2016

buckwheat at Full Sun Farm
      We had a great time on ASAP’s farm tour this past week end. About 130 folks made it out to the farm and toured around our fields, learning about our farming practices, what we grow and a little farm history. The hazelnuts were a big draw. It […]

News from the Farm – July , 2016

Jason in the fog at Full Sun Farm
We’re on the ASAP Farm Tour this weekend the 25th & 26th of June. Well, we enjoyed the cooler weather last week, but we’re back to the heat and very dry weather of a few weeks ago. It is REALLY dry out there in the fields. We’re irrigating every few […]

News from the Farm – June 25, 2016

Rainbow over Full Sun Farm
Aw the rain! Yesterday’s rains really helped us and the crops. It’s been somewhat challenging over the past few days with the temperatures the 90s. We were quite happy to have a little rain to cool things down a bit and give the crops a bit more water. We can […]

News from the Farm – June 18, 2016

Intern at Full Sun Farm
  We have a great crew this season. Every year is different on the farm, from the weather, diseases, insects, but a huge part of how our farm runs lands on the shoulders of our interns. We try to provide them an interesting and educational work environment, and they provide […]

News from the Farm – June 11, 2016

hay at Full Sun Farm
It’s JUNE! We had a huge Thursday last week. I mentioned that all the farmers in our valley were baling hay last week. Our field was cut and baled into square bales as well. So we had to get all those bales (about 200) out of the field and into […]

News from the Farm – June 4, 2016

Greenhouse tomatoes at Full Sun Farm
What a week of planting we’ve had. There’s still a few more things to go in the ground, but we got to the bulk of it over the last week. We planted three kinds of eggplant, five different peppers, many kinds of summer squash and cucumbers, basil, and sowed a […]

News from the Farm – May 28, 2016

Planting eggplant at Full Sun Farm
Week 2! We hope you all enjoyed all the veggies from last week because here comes another full box. As you sill see, lots of greens this time of year, but some root crops have made an appearance in beets and kohlrabi (the weird purple things). It’s been a wild […]

News from the Farm – May 21, 2016

Basil starts at Full Sun Farm
Welcome everyone! Thanks for choosing Full Sun Farm as your CSA this season. This is our 16th year offering CSA shares and our 20th growing produce and flowers at Full Sun!!! We hope that you all enjoy the quality and diversity of produce this season and always know that we’re […]

News from the Farm – May 14, 2016

Lettuce at Full Sun Farm
Hello everyone. We’re so glad to have you with us. The seasons are really changing and the next month or so of boxes will reflect that, more greens!, potatoes, winter squash, popcorn(once it’s ready), and root vegetables. The extension boxes are most probably going to be a little bigger than […]

News from the Farm – 2015 Week 1 Extension

Thank you from Full Sun Farm
This is the LAST week for the regular share!! We want to thank all of you for your support over the course of this season. Overall, we feel it’s been a great success. There were, of course, gaps in production and unexpected disease issues tha hindered our best efforts. We […]

News from the Farm – October 10, 2015