This year's farm stand

summer market 2014 

The weather has been so warm and sunny, we have been thinking about opening the Thursday farm stand early this year.

Beginning in April, the sun set time is 7:30pm , if we are open 4:30 to 6:30 pm, it allows us an hour of sun light to break the stand down, and pack up our remaining goods.

Local foodies shop locally for the freshest produce

By April there will (hopefully) be enough produce to have a tasty selection for the market. There will be a lot of leafy greens, tender baby salad, turnips, beets, early onions, leeks, asparagus, nuts, oranges, lemons, dried fruit from last fall. Charlie's North Yuba Bakery Bread, jams & jellys, perhaps our new potatoes, honey, pickles, eggs, humus, beet salad and more. In addition we hope to have veggie seedlings for sale to go in YOUR garden.We'll announce the exact dates later. Hope to see you there.

Spring Prep

emergence

 Spring is just around the corner, the farm is waking up from it's long winter's nap. We have a lot of projects coming up. Participating, WWOOFers can get working experience dealing with spring farm jobs. Now is the time we do our spring shovel dance. We get our gardens ready for spring planting, that means moving compost onto our existing beds, working up the soil and laying out irrigation. We will also be building some experiential, new "no-dig" beds, a promising project. We are sorting our seeds, picking out the appropriate ones and seeding out heat loving varieties for summer,they need heating mats, and babying along of those tender sprouts. We will finish pruning those orchard trees, apples and pears, that are threatening to break dormancy.  Then, our goats will begin kidding soon, there will be bottle babies to feed, goat milking and goat's milk cheese making. We plan on fencing and crossing fencing a small underutilized pasture area for the goat's, allowing us to use it's lush ,spring, stand of grass, for rotational grazing. Lots of interesting, challenges ahead...

spreading compost

 If you are interested to explore farming at Oak Meadow, now is a good time to apply. We are especially interested in working with those who aspire to start their own farm in the future. We appreciate volunteers who just want to exchange a few days of their help, for a better understanding about how food is grown, that is a  noble cause. However, because our, resources, space and energy is limited, preference is given to those wishing to become future farmers. It is you; who have a strong desire, a "calling", so to speak, a longing to farm, for whom we wait. It is you who have a will, to acquire the skills, understanding and steadfast endurance, it takes to overcome the obstacles beginning farmers face; for whom we wait. We are dedicated to the task at hand. Together, responsible farmers change the world, one season at a time. 

Spring!