Happy Holidays from SIW Veggies!

Happy Holidays SIW Style...Wait until the end of the video!

Wishes for a wonderful holiday season. We're looking forward to what we hope will be an exciting 2022! Our farm stand will re-open in April. 

 

A Calling All SIW Volunteers!

 

Email Your RSVP Here

The Farm Stand Opens for the Season April 22nd!!

 OUR SEASON OPENING IS APRIL 22ND

The farmstand is officially opening for the season on April 22nd (9 am to 6 pm daily). We couldn't think of a more fitting day to open than Earth Day. We hope you'll stop over to say hello and pick up some spring plants.

We will be bringing in locally grown annuals, perennials, hanging plants, and deck/patio containers.  

 

As far as Annuals go we will be carrying old-time favorites, such as, but not limited to: 

• Impatiens 
• Begonias
• Marigolds 
• Petunias 
• Vincas
• Zinnias
• 
  

We will also be carrying Proven Winner Annuals, such as, but not limited to:

• Million Bell Petunias
• Wave Petunias
• Cascading Petunias
• New Guinea Impatiens
• Verbena
• Lantana

Plan on perusing a wonderful selection of veggie transplants, perennials, foliage, and tropical plants in addition to lots of wonderful local products (meats, cheese, pasta, spices, and baked goods) and our very own SIW jarred pasta sauces, honey, fruit butters, and more!

THE NEXT CROP MOB IS APRIL 24TH

Enjoy a morning on the farm, stretch your bones,

and get some fresh air!

Saturday, April 24th

from 9 am -12 noon with lunch included afterward

Join us at the farm to clean high tunnels, plant seedlings, and help with other start-of-the-season farm tasks. The events start at 9 AM. Bring your gardening gloves and dress to get dirty. Lunch will be provided; please specify if you'll need a vegetarian lunch. This event is FREE but please register by 4/21 respectively via email: torig.siw@gmail.com so we can be sure to have a yummy lunch for you! Open to the public and all ages welcome. Masks will need to be worn.

Here's a photo of our dirty but happy Crop Mobbers, from March 27th, heading to the lunch table. Thank you to all of the helpful people doing farm jobs that are not the most fun but need to be done. We got a lot accomplished and enjoyed the company of some great people!

HG's "How To" Videos

Follow us on Instagram @siwveggies for a new segment of informative (infused with farmer humor of course) How-To videos. Here's a sample:

THERE'S STILL TIME TO SIGN UP FOR THE CSA AND SIW BUCKS

What is Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)? Historically, CSA’s charged you money in the winter & gave you whatever they had (their choice) every week throughout the growing season. In addition, members had to work a certain number of hours on the farm to share in the experience. This helped to educate the members about what it takes to produce their vegetables and why some crops failed & others didn’t. It also helped the farmer to get some work done too! Some people even like that kind of thing!

We do charge you in the winter and we do give you stuff in the summer. We don’t require you to work on the farm in the summer though we would welcome you with open arms. Summer camp for the kids? Ha! I encourage you to at least come to see that we really are growing fruits and veggies on the farm. If you agree to become a member you pay me in the winter and I give you fruits and vegetables that I grow once a week throughout the growing season, (Every other week for a Half Share). Typically we start to get a few things in mid-June, most things in July through early October and decrease in October as the month wears on. Except for pumpkins and all the fall decorating stuff, of course. The idea is that you help us when we don’t have any money coming in and eat healthy all summer! Our canned goods are not included though you do get a discount on them. You also share in the ups and downs of the growing season.

April CSA Full Share

April CSA Half Share

Things are ramping up at the farm- This week's dinner menu, the first crop mob date is almost here, and more!

 

THIS WEEK'S MENU

ORDER HERE

2019 Crop Mobs

Thank you to those who attended the March Crop Mob! 

It was a great day and we enjoyed the company of those who attended (and all of their efforts!)

There's one more on April 27th. If you want to attend and get lunch you will need to RSVP by Wed 4/24. We have lots of fun activities(farm work- easy and not so easy, but mostly easy) planned for the whole family to enjoy! Hope to see you there!!

Join us at the farm to clean high tunnels, plant seedlings, and help with other start-of-the-season farm tasks. Event starts at 8:30 AM. Bring your gardening gloves and dress to get dirty. Lunch will be provided; please specify if you'll need a vegetarian lunch. Free and open to the public. This event is FREE but please register by 4/24 so we can be sure to have a yummy lunch for you!

To register, contact Ruth Arias at 302-658-6262 ext. 113 or email rarias@thedhc.org

Great Day for the High Tunnel!

There's nothing better than starting out your day by getting a great look at your surroundings and taking in all the wonder the eyes can see.  I am truly blessed to be surrounded by........................

      Such crazies>>>>>>>>>>>>  Let the fun begin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today Tomato Planting in the "High Tunnel"



And what a beautiful day it was.  The prep work had been started by our Crop Mob back at the beginning of the month.

Compost was put down along with drip line and cover.

Watering was checked both on the ground and in the air.

And then we found the Farmer!  Pulling the posse together for a morning stroll through the tunnel!

The cart was being loaded with tomatoes

of all kinds,

As we stood by and watched the water, fertilizer and the hole punch unwind.

Dan and Marv always have a precise plan,

As to how many there are and what kind, all going in by hand.

What beauties!

"The Posse"
(HG, Marv, Dan and Ernesto)

Ernesto was following up with the braces for the top row cover.

Serenity in our own backyard

Ahhhhhhhhhh what a moment.............

This is a moment we savor at this time of year.  Golden sun, glimmering across the stream in the early morning.  Serenity is not a word you will hear often around the farm when the hustle and bustle begins way early and continues throughout our day. 

As June 2nd nears, the farm carries a wonderful  buzz..........

Tomatoes are gaining ground as well as corn, onions, garlic etc.