CSA shares are now available

Stout Oak Farm is pleased to announce that we are offering a 20-week vegetable CSA this year! Members will pick up their shares at the Exeter Farmers' Market on Thursday afternoons. If you're interested in learning more, visit our CSA page!

new tools

It's crop planning time, a task made a little less daunting with a few new-ish farm planning tools I'm thinking about trying out this year.

First, there's the super-handy CD of spreadsheets that comes with Richard Wiswall's The Organic Farmer's Business Handbook. I also decided to try out a new Target Harvest Date Calculator, a simple time-saving spreadsheet developed by Growing for Market and Johnny's Seeds. Finally, there's AgSquared, a fancy new record-keeping software for farmers that looks pretty intriguing (and it's free!). Check out their demo! 

off to a good start

We are celebrating the new year with a big green salad! For the first time ever, we are eating our own homegrown greens in January. I'm taking this as a hopeful sign for the year to come!

Along with our celebratory salad, we're having one of our favorite meals - Riverslea Farm lamb burgers with roasted potatoes, carrots and beets. 

Thinking ahead to 2011, I'm allowing myself to assemble a mental list of my hopes for the year - all kinds of hopes - both big and small. Just for today, the list can be as long as I want, and nothing is too grand, too impractical or too idealistic. What fun!