Dear CSA Blue Heron Farm Friends and Family, Here we are! Our 17th season! wait – what? 17th season with our humble little CSA. We are so thankful for having you with us in our journey of affordable organic food for all. And we are a year into this pandemic. Holy moly! What a year […]
Hope & Resilience
Dear Community, Spring Solstice has come and gone. The days are getting longer. I think I heard faintly the first brave peepers the other night while watering the greenhouse. The pastures are starting to green up. Lambs are due within two weeks. Chicks are coming. Seeds are being planted. Fields are being cleaned up. Spring […]
Our 19th CSA Season-
February 8, 2023 Dear CSA members and friends, Here we are 2023. Happy New Year! Time sure flies by! Next year we will have been farming commercially for 20 years?! How did that happen? Also, Sadie now has her driver’s permit and she is my chauffer around the islands. Delia has grown many inches over […]
Journal Week 7
Volume XVIII, JOURNAL 7 August 1, 2022 Blue Heron Farm Journal So what’s happening on the farm this week? Week 7: Hi everyone! August 1! We had a calf born in the night- a little boy – we named him August. Tiny, the mama cow, is doing well and they are both walking […]
Journal Week 2
Volume XVIII, JOURNAL 2 June 27, 2022 Blue Heron Farm Journal So what’s happening on the farm this week? Week 2: So here we are on Monday…we found three cows out and in the pepper field nibbling on some top leaves. Then it started to downpour as if a faucet was turned […]
18th CSA Season – Journal Post 1
Volume XVIII, JOURNAL 1 June 20, 2022 Blue Heron Farm Journal So what’s happening on the farm this week? Week 1: Happy Summer Solstice! Happy Juneteenth! Hi everyone! Welcome to the first pickup of CSA. Thank you and good to see you all – our returning members and we look forward to meeting all […]
Week 5: July 22, 2021
Week 5: Hello to all our valued CSA members! Here we are! Bags are heavy😊 Shred that squash and zucchini for the freezer for winter soups and breads😊 Cucumbers are here and we have included some easy cucumber pickle recipes for you. We picked over 1,000 lbs of pickling cukes on Tuesday – so if […]
Week 4: July 14, 2020
Week 4: Hello to all our valued CSA members! These weeks are flying by. We have walked around the farm and are seeing everything growing in it’s July speed. We picked the first chard of the season and it is beautiful and bodacious. We are in the height of a zucchini and summer squash season […]
Week 3: July 7, 2021
So what’s happening on the farm this week? Week 3: Hello to all our valued CSA members! Adam here, writing the “on the farm” section for this week (usually it’s Christine). I was thinking this morning, which I do best early in the morning, that I am very grateful for this farm. What I am […]
Week 2: June 28, 2021
So what’s happening on the farm this week? Week 2: So last week we were wearing sweatshirts and this week bathing suits. We discovered for the first time Alburgh Dunes state park this week – we have been there twice since Sunday- It is a gorgeous place and the girls said it felt like they […]
Week 1: June 21, 2021
So what’s happening on the farm this week? Week 1: Happy Summer Solstice! Hi everyone! Welcome to the first pickup of CSA. Thank you and good to see you to our returning members and welcome and we look forward to meeting all of our new members this year. This is week 1 of 18 weeks […]