The Process
The season of bounty is upon us. Partial jars of fresh-pressed apple cider litter the farm common area. Our cooler wall continues to fill with bins of fresh apples. Carrots, onions and zucchini lie...
Cooperative Farm - CSA - Growing Organic Produce for Central WI and the Fox Valley
The season of bounty is upon us. Partial jars of fresh-pressed apple cider litter the farm common area. Our cooler wall continues to fill with bins of fresh apples. Carrots, onions and zucchini lie...
I’m struck by the attentiveness demanded by the vegetables we are growing this season. I munch a radish in the truck, and am struck by its relative woodiness and blandness, compared to the same...
I got an early start Wednesday and roared out of town in our beastly F-350, fully loaded with a bed and trailer of woodchips. I had them mostly unloaded by the time Monica showed...
We had our CSA party on the farm last Sunday, so we arrived early and got into our annual damage-control routine — cutting and hiding wood scraps; loading garbage for the dump; mowing common-area...
Having existed within RSO since inception, I’m quite eager to get an outsider’s view when I can — picking the brains of our first-year employee, Asher, our old guy, Red, and our work shares....
This last Tuesday marked the third of the month, making it a Supper Club evening. That morning, I had woken especially early, in the sleeper of a tractor/trailer in Greenville, MI, to get my...
When I was a child and young man, having little clue about the direction of my future, there were two things about which I was absolutely certain: I was not going to be a...
One of the fascinating features of farming is its dynamism in rhythm throughout the season. Gentle, housebound planning sessions of winter are supplanted by the greenhouse world of seeds, trays and watering patterns, which...
It would be hard to overstate the importance of farmers’ markets to our current business model. We bank on a sizeable influx of cash from Saturday-to-Saturday in peak growing season, flowing in from our...
Now well into our second season on the vegetable grind, the members of Rising Sand are starting to explore questions regarding our current and future relationships to our land and business. As opportunities and...
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CSA and Saturday Farmers’ Market in downtown Appleton and Stevens Point.
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