Week 12, Swore Farms CSA 8/12/14

Looks like I forgot to take a picture of the board this week, but we've got 20 Swiss Chard, 2 heads of hydroponic Lettuce, 15 Tomatoes, 1 Cabbage, 6 Candy Onions, 20 Kale, 4 Giant Burpless Cucumbers, 5 Broccoli, 6 Eggs, 2 Peppers, 6.5 lbs Red Potatoes, 1 Zucchini, 3 lbs Peas, & 5 lbs Green Beans. Whew!

Week 11, September 5th 2014

This basket had a lot of our CSA members staggering under the weight! 14 lbs red potatoes, 2 Cabbages, 1 English cucumber, 2 Candy Onions, 8 tomatoes, 2 large beets, 2 bundles Swiss Chard, a Dozen Eggs, one Zucchini, 2 Burpless cucumbers, 2 lbs Green Beans, 2.5 lbs Peas.... my friends, that's quite the haul. I dare you to eat all that good food in a week!

Week 10, Swore Farms CSA 7/29/14

Here's a peek at how full the tables are when we load them for CSA. The tables almost groan under the weight of all that food!

 This week brings loads of peas and even a fresh zucchini! 

10 carrots, 13 lbs of red potatoes, 2 cabbage, 4 candy onions, basil, dill, thyme, 1 cauliflower, 2 beets, 2 bunches kale, 2 bunches rainbow swiss chard, 1 zucchini, 1 doz eggs, 4 tomatoes, & 1 box full of peas!

Yum!

Week 9, Swore Farms CSA 7/22/14

AAnnd we have another injury. At dusk, Kidlet #5 ran full tilt into a pitchfork that friends left on the grass. One tine passed between his tibia and fibula and tented out the back of his calf while another pierced his other foot, going in between the 2nd and 3rd little toe. His 10 year-old sister pulled the pitchfork out moments before we arrived. Minutes later, and we were on our way to the hospital. So if things come in threes, we should be done. Wendy's back, Kidlet#1's accident, and not Kidlet#5's pitchfork.

Anyway, back to this week's basket...

1/2 lb Snow peas, 1.3 lb sweet peas, 1 burpless, cucumber, 6 tomatoes, 1 egg plant, 6.5 lbs tomatoes, 1 candy onion, 8 carrots, 1 cauliflower, 2 beets, 4 lettuce, & 1/2 doz eggs.

Again, we were extremely blessed; kidlet#5 had no broken bones, no pierced arteries, no tendon damage. His doctor said, "I think you had divine hands guiding that tine into exactly the perfect place to be. A milometer in any direction and you'd have serious damage that required surgery. It's a miracle."

I think so too. Two weeks later, and he's totally fine--moving without pain unless you touch the wound itself. 

Week 7, Swore Farms CSA 7/8/14

These baskets are getting huge! 

This week had 5 lbs green beans, 3 basil, 2 kale bunches, 2 dill, 2 heads butter crunch lettuce, 5 candy onions, 3 beets, 20 carrots, 2 burpless cucumbers, 8 english cucumbers, 1/2 doz eggs

The best thing about the English cucumbers is that they don't need to be peeled. They are delicious! 

Week 8, Swore Farms CSA 7/15/14

Important things first: We found a cute frog in the greenhouse. Haha! We let him go to eat more bugs in there. We strive to remain pesticide free on our farm. 

 This week we had 6 Candy Onions, 15 Carrots, 1 lb Beans, 2 basil, 2 dill, 2 thyme, 2 lettuce, 2 kale bunches, 1 swiss chard bunch, 10 lbs freshly dug red potatoes, 4 burpless cucumbers, 1 English cucumbers, 10 rhubarb, 1 doz eggs, and 2 tomatoes! 

Gotta love those garden fresh tomatoes. Amazing!

Week 6, Swore Farms CSA 7/1/14

Had a bad shock this week: Our daughter was in a terrible accident and was ambulanced to the hospital for road rash (*update her wounds are almost healed by 8/4/14 I'll put a picture of her at the bottom of this post)

 One of the most time consuming chores is harvesting beans. We have 2 rows of green beans in greenhouse 1 and it takes hours upon hours to harvest them--even with many hands, but for our CSA family, 

the work is worth it!

A dozen Eggs, SIX POUNDS of green beans! WOW! 8 rhubarb, kale, hydroponic lettuce, butter head lettuce, 2 candy onions, 3 beets, 10 carrots, 4 burpless cucumbers, 4 English cucumbers, cauliflower, & 4 radishes. Yummy stuff!

Here's our Kidlet#1. Ouchie! She fell off a trailer onto pavement at 35mphr while out with friends.

Her arms and legs had road rash and lacerations including a 5 inch gash on her arm, deep holes on her knees, and tendon damage to her right foot, but her head was completely untouched. We are very blessed and thankful she is okay.

Week 4, Swore Farms CSA 6/17/14

Week Four

Spinach, HONEY (woot woot!) Beets, onions, radishes, cucumbers, carrots, beans, broccoli, and 2 dozen eggs! A lot of wonderful new items this week!

Inside greenhouse 3, the pumpkin starts are growing beside the tomatoes.

Week 2, Swore Farms CSA Baskets 6/3/24

Often at the beginning of a season, the baskets are a little lean, but we give more in later baskets to make up for it as produce becomes ripe. Pickups are Tuesdays from 4:30-6:30

This week, our baskets had a dozen eggs, beets, green onions, fresh ground flour, lettuce, russet potatoes, radishes, and stone cut wheat cereal (called farina: here's a link on how to prep it. ). 

One of our members baked this beautiful loaf from our wheat flour. Yumm!

Our hens are free to come and go as they please with access to fresh grass 24/7. We move their pasture fence around to include the best new growth. The fence helps keep them safe from predators like wild dogs here on the reservation, but they are never shut in and they live happy lives scratching around.

One of the fun things about our eggs is that they come in all colors and sizes. This egg took a while for the hen to lay. I happened to see her just as she was getting ready to drop it. Here's the video:

Now Taking Applications for the 2014 CSA program!

It may still be winter, but here at Swore Farms, we are hard at work plotting and planning for the 2014 season! And...drum roll please...We are excited to invite you to participate in our 2014 CSA program!

If you surf through the posts on this blog, you can see the actual pictures of the food we gave out each week during harvest. THANK YOU so much to everyone who joined us that first year!

If you would like to join us for this year, please go to our website and look over the contract. Space is very limited so hurry before it fills up!

A new addition to the program is our WORK SHARE program! We are super excited about this new feature. By adopting one row, you can save $75 dollars off the price of your Full or Half share! More details are on the website.

Here's the link!
http://sworefarms.com/csaprogram.html

On a sidenote, I've noticed that sometimes when I click on the page, you might need to refresh the page to see the CSA IS OPEN part. I think google memorized the old image and needs a reminder to refresh it to the current updated page. THANK YOU!

CSA Week 20!! THE END! 10/9/13

Our Final DAY deserves a party, don't you think?

We thought so!

To celebrate, we invited CSA families to come out and enjoy the Corn Maze and Pumpkin Patch! We had facepainting, haywagon ride to the pumpkin patch, the corn maze, farm games, and of course fresh vegi's! 

I neglected to take a photo of the produce this week but everyone got loads of carrots, potatoes, parsnips, multiple squash of different varieties, and of course, PUMPKINS! We also had hot cider for anyone who wanted any.

 Overall, I think we did a pretty good job this year of giving our CSA members fresh and delicious vegetables and fruit. We discovered that it really is a lot of work, but we hope that you enjoyed this adventure with us. See you next year!!

Here's a picture of the 2012 maze as shown by Google Earth. You can see that we don't make a "picture" with the maze, but it is definitely harder and longer than it looks from the outside! Next year's maze will be even bigger! 

SEE YOU NEXT YEAR! THANK YOU!

CSA Week 19, 10/2/13

On to OCTOBER! Boy this season has gone fast! We hosted Ag Days with Farm Bureau and invited every 4th grader in Pocatello out to learn about agriculture. They had great fun and went through the Maze, and heard from the Soil & Water Conservation, the Noxious Weed Department, 4-H Extension Office, Farm Bureau, The FFA, and they got to dig their own potatoes out of the field. We gave away over 8,000lbs of red potatoes this week. We also invited local Legislature representatives out to see the farm.

Okay, onto the CSA, no matter what's going on around the farm, we do our best to give you the best produce possible! We Moved the pickup station outside for this week to give everyone a bit more room!

CSA Week 17, 9/18/13

As you can see, this week had cantaloupe as well as all the other yummy things! We love those juicy melons! Also on the menu for full share was 13 ears of corn, 1 turnip, 1 bag potatoes, 2 leeks, 1 palace King Cucumber, 2 tomatoes, 5 tomatillos, 1 banana pepper, 1 green pepper, 2 specialty peppers, 6 onions, 15 green onions, 4 beets, 1 slicer cucumber, 4 lemon cucumbers, and 20 carrots. 

Good stuff!

This week we had some awesome volunteers come out and help fill the food bank's truck full of our yummy sweet corn! Thanks to these helping hands, hundreds of people enjoyed a fine sweet corn dinner! 

Thanks Guys!