Happy New Year from all of us at Simple Gifts Farm.  We are proud of all that we accomplished in 2019.  We would like to celebrate another season of the accomplishments that keep us on a daily, weekly and monthly schedule of guiding the everyday magic that turns...

We love being part of a community farm and connecting you all with our community food supply!  You all are the reason we do what we do and we are so grateful for your support.  We got a lot of great feedback from the survey and wanted to share with you some of what we...

We spend a lot of time planning out our season in the winter.  We have spreadsheets that tell us how many pounds of carrots per bed, and other spreadsheets that tell us how many pounds of carrots we go through in a week.  We can then calculate how many beds of carrots...

We had our annual visit from our organic inspector this week.  This is a relatively painless, though tedious, process that makes me again wonder why it is that administrative positions are the ones that are considered the top of the heap.  Why do we go through the...

Our no-till planting experiment has taken another round; we have now actually planted tomatoes into the no-tilled field!  It was clear after spending a day in the heat getting those tomatoes in the ground that we are substituting some heavy tractor work, to till the field and get it ready for planting, with some heavy hand labor to plant those tomato plants. 

Strawberries, strawberries, strawberries!  That's what we are all about this time of year.  We have twice as much ground planted to strawberries (2 acres) as we did last year, which was already twice as much as we had the year before.  So along with inviting...