Wozani Farm

10/30/2024

You're invited: Fall Wreath Making Class https://wix.to/JhhBcvd

We will Have 2 classes, one thursday evening and one saturday afternoon this November. Spaces are limited so sign up quickly!
Can't wait to see you there!

09/20/2024

Come join us for our last Saturday farmstand!
Give away to all who purchase something Saturday. Mud kitchen for kiddos
Kids can Paint a mini pumpkin (while supplies last.)
Bud vases station
Coffee
And more!

09/16/2024

A jewel tone bouquet with aquatic nods!
This one was just so fun! Colors were earthen with a splash of blue!

08/26/2024

A bright and a warm bouquet going out to 2 special people today.
We mainly do wholesale, weddings and markets, but every known and then a special request comes and I love to pause the thoughts of market and harvest lists and walk the fields with the intention of fulfilling a special request.

08/19/2024

Lady decided she wanted in on the dahlia show!

08/08/2024

Coffee on a T post.
Tell me you’ve put your coffee in perilous situations too. 😂💛
I got this mug in South Africa, note the protea, South Africa’s national flower, and it’s so special to me! But will I keep it safe?… probably not, I love it, and thus I use it. If I wanted it to last, I know with my clumsiness, I shouldn’t use it, but that would mean the memory of the hot ceramic body warming hands would be lost.
So for now, as long as I have it and it balances on posts and polls I’ll enjoy it.
Do you have something special you use daily too?

08/03/2024

Come say hi!

07/24/2024

This Saturday at the farm will only be CSA pick ups, no market. is going camping, and Rainer and I will be stealing away for a quick trip.

If you are summer flower share, CSA member, expect an email shortly with details. 💛

07/16/2024

Published in The Gazette, Saturday, July 13, 2024
Year Round Gardening - Grasshoppers are coming to your garden, and they are hungry.

Article by Allisa Linfield, Horticulture Coordinator, CSU Extension El Paso County
Photo Credit: Irene Shonle, PhD., Extension Horticulture Specialist, El Paso County

Understanding the grasshopper lifecycle can help explain why we are seeing high numbers of grasshoppers and why they are so difficult to manage. Grasshopper embryos begin to develop within eggs immediately after they are deposited by adults and they must reach a certain stage of development before entering a period of dormancy in the winter, referred to as diapause. What drives the successful development of these embryos? Heat! An accumulation of heat is needed by fall for these eggs to have successful hatch rates the following spring.

For best overwintering success, grasshopper eggs need snow and vegetation, which protect and insulate the eggs deposited in the upper layer of the soil. In spring, more heat units are needed to complete development, though more are needed in the previous fall. Eggs hatch and the nymphs emerge, looking like very tiny grasshoppers. They molt several times in a process of incomplete metamorphosis before reaching their final adult size.

Temperature is again the driving factor in grasshopper feeding, and when temperatures are between 81-90 °F, the grasshoppers will eat until they are full. Then they will walk off the meal in a behavior called “pottering” until they are ready to eat again. If temperatures rise above 90 °F, they will seek out shade or “stilt,” a behavior where they straighten their legs to lift their bodies above the warm soil. When temperatures are below 68 °F or if there is precipitation or wind, grasshoppers will stop feeding and find shelter.

Autumn 2023 was one of the 10 hottest autumns on record in El Paso County. This was followed by a warmer, wetter winter. March, April, and May were warmer than average in Colorado with average amounts of moisture. These factors are ideal for growth and development of grasshopper eggs. In June we experienced above average high temperatures in the range ideal for grasshopper feeding during the vulnerable early stages of growth after hatching.

What can we do to protect our gardens? For now, our grasshoppers are starting to enter their later molts where insecticides are less effective. You can use traps, including this homemade molasses trap recommended by University of Arizona Extension (https://cales.arizona.edu/cochise/mg/whats-bugging-you-grasshopper?utm_source=marketingcloud&utm_medium=email)
Remember you will need to regularly remove grasshopper carcasses. If you have backyard poultry, you could let them out for some supervised free-ranging in the garden when temperatures are cool in the morning and the grasshoppers are slower. You can cover high-value plants in your landscape with insect netting, but sometimes grasshoppers will eat through netting.

Plan now for what you are going to do in the fall to discourage overwintering success of eggs. You could till soil after your final harvest in your garden beds to expose existing eggs to the elements. Remove any weedy plant matter around the landscape that will insulate the eggs through the winter. In the spring, stay on top of weeding to reduce early season forage and shelter for newly hatched nymphs and consider applying mulch to reduce the number that make it to the soil surface.

Submit gardening questions to [email protected] or call 719-520-7684. The in-person help desk is open 9 a.m.-noon and 1-4 p.m. Mondays ,Wednesdays and Thursdays at 17 N. Spruce St.

07/11/2024

The zinnia have started to show their beautiful faces!
These grasshoppers however are trying to steal the moment.
I’m ready for war on the grasshoppers! What are you doing to keep them off your crops/gardens?
So far we are trying to increase brix count on plants, and tomorrow I’m spraying with garlic! 🍝😂

07/07/2024

Let’s help Talitha Koum Sourdough out!
She sold out last week at our farmstand, so let’s keep that going so she can get this awesome baker!
She brings sourdough Bagels, breads and others goodies to the farmstand every Saturday 9-12.

Hey, friends!

Somewhat of a vulnerable post. For the past few months, I’ve been saving up for this beauty of an oven from Simply Bread Co.

This new oven will allow me to bake anywhere from 12-15 loaves at once! It’s gonna be awesome.

I’m roughly $800 away from my goal, and I’m hoping to order her before the end of July because it’s roughly a 10 week turnaround from order to delivery. So for the next two weeks, I will be offering my best sellers. And best of all, I will be offering more than usual.

Ya’ll think you could sell me out? I have a pretty good idea of what the menu will be, but if there is a specific item or flavor you want, sound off below! And please tell your friends when my order form drops tomorrow!

📸: photo credit to Simply Bread Co

04/04/2024

Join us for an all day intensive! Grow Your Own Cut Flower Garden: A Hands-On Retreat at Wozani Farm. Food, drink and fun provided https://wix.to/N6WOp60

02/28/2024

We’ve got some news!
When we first saw the farm an idea sparked that we saw in South Africa. It was an integrative collective practice. Being a place of medicine and health, with chiropractors, yoga, smoothie/juice bar, work out space. We are not there now.
But, our first step has been taken. Rainer is now seeing patients! He will come to you! South Africa (and other countries he’s travelled to) had shaped his perspective when it came to primary care, and he’s wanting to introduce slow medicine here. Where an appointment can take as long as you need.

Go over and give him a follow!

02/18/2024

Look who got an upgrade this weekend! The doors in the workshop so needed a fresh coat of paint! And I so needed to get my hands dirty. 🤪
Benjamin Moore’s is a favorite!

11/04/2023

Delphinium. They are Extremely poisonous and we stayed away from growing them for the years that I feared my kids would try them just for fun. But Today It’s a favorite!
It’s a short lived perennial (so I’ve been told) for Colorado, so not to expect more than 3 years of blooms from a plant.
Some different varieties are coming in next year!

11/04/2023

Tinkerbell is always a crowd pleaser on the farm. She’s been with us since May of 2020, as a guard animal to our sheep. The sheep took to her immediately! And now every time we have to separate them she wails for her babies to come back. We think she’s around 24 years old. Swipe to see what she looked like when we first got her. 💛

11/03/2023

Enjoying what the fields have given even after they have been put to rest.

10/26/2023

Fall weddings are so fun! I loved pulling leaves that were changing color and dried grasses in this bouquet! We had to save dahlia for a week because of the frost, but they made it! And then these golden chrysanthemums from the high tunnel were really the showstoppers!