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Sunflowers… these are the last plantings of our sunflowers for 2024. Can’t wait for the beauties to be ready for us to bring to market for y’all.
The type of sunflowers grown are seeds from and varieties are for their no pollen blooms, which make for an easier to maintain flower for your table.
Bugs - They are everywhere. EVERYWHERE in the garden. Some are friends. Some are foes. They’re just doing their jobs of either pollinating or being part of nature’s clean up crew. It’s quite incredible learning to walk in the garden with these cooperators, especially teaching kiddos how to manage fears associated with… BUGS! 🪳 🐛 🐞 YIKES!
Don’t get me wrong. It’s not all rainbows 🌈 and unicorns 🦄 at the farm with the bugs. We have ants that bite to defend their colonies with all their might!!! They are mean little buggars and I steer clear of them. There are worms that DESTROY our tomato plants and brassicas (kale, broccoli, etc), so I have to cover them with netting.
With all of the good and bad of these bugs, I’ve got to say that they are quite magnificent to observe. So if you have time (and aren’t allergic) check some of the amazing bugs we’ve got in our lovely state of TN. Happy Friday and have a lovely weekend!
Mud Fun. No direction. Completely student led… once out in the environment for creativity, getting dirty, and having some fun in nature. Getting exposure to strange textures (like dirt, mud, Woodchips, even w**ds on your legs as you’re walking) is very important for kiddos as they age so they can do some@of the “dirty jobs” that are crucial to society (like farming 😉😊).
Delicata Squash is growing! And other winter squashes like honeynut and butterscotch, Red Kuri too!
These babies were seeded at the beginning of July and transplanted at the beginning of August. But why are they called winter squashes if they’re growing during the summer? Well these squash (as well as other squash from the cucurbitaceae family like cucs, summer squash, and zucchini) all love the heat of summer. The winter squashes, though, are cured in the field and because of this curing, they developed a skin that allows us to store this crop through the winter to enjoy on those cold nights when we just want something sweet and cozy. These winter squashes take anywhere from 80-110 days from seed to harvest. So when I call these “babies” it’s because they’ve been tended and nurtures and cared for, for quite some time. For those who are counting, that means our delicatas should be ready around the end of September. Mark your calendars!
Winter squash transplanted and w**d barrier protected by student worker crew 2024👏👏👏
Arugula
Alright, y’all. We will most definitely have that delicious arugula at market tomorrow afternoon at 3:30-6:30pm. It’s gonna feel all fall-like with the cooler weather, so come on out. Stroll around. Grab your groceries for the week and enjoy yourselves!
(do you see the w**ds?! 🤣)
Good morning from the farm
Crops are growing. Crops are dying. There are successes and failures too. Pictured are our beans. Velour and maxibel. Also, the little seedlings in the foreground are pink beauty radishes. This is my third round of seeding radishes since the beginning of July. Now for those who may not know, radishes usually take about a month from seeding to harvest. If y’all haven’t noticed, I’ve had not a single bunch of radishes since the spring, ergo, failure. Not sure if it was because of my watering schedule or because of the excess in rain, but that first round of summer radishes tanked! So here’s praying this third round does better (it’d be nice if the second round does too 🤣😉).
Same way in life. There are success and failures. We learn and grow, whether we want to or not, through those end and flows of life. Buena suerte or your journey. I’ll keep y’all posted on the farm’s. 😉
Tot morning is coming up this Thursday morning! Beat the heat by coming earlier. As usual the mud kitchen will open and ready for some creative minds while parents build community. Parents are always welcome to walk their kiddos around the farm and explore the new things growing at the farm.
Looking forward to seeing y’all at the farm!
Bean Harvest in the “cool” (is it really cool when it’s already 80 out before 7:30in the morning?!) of the day. This heat is tough, not only on us humans who plant, tend, and harvest the food that comes to your market, but also on the plants. These beans are doing well as we’re trying to@keep@our crops well hydrated through this heatwave as well as they’re planted closely together, which creates a wonderful cover for the soil. This cover helps keep the moisture from the watering in the soil instead of evaporating. The “empty” beds you see in the foreground are bean beds that were just seeded yesterday. Drip tape helps with directly watering where the beans were seeded. We use the direct seeder with the bean plate and then lay the drip@tape where she seeded the beans, putting staples on the drip@tape line to secure it from wind moving it. Then we take Zipper from to cover the beans and drip tape together as the earthway seeder doesn’t cover the seeds well (and we don’t want those buggars to dry out while they’re trying to germinate and in this heat!). This also adds an extra layer of protection from the drip tape moving in any wind we may have.
The summer is just flying by and now we are approaching the pinnacle of summer time bliss. No Tot Morning this month, but mark your calendars for August 1st 8-11am at the farm.
Goodlettsville Farmers Market 3-7pm
Lettuce Mix
Arugula
Beets
Carrots 🥕
Tomatoes 🍅
Cucumbers 🥒
Herbs: basil, thyme, dill, sage, oregano
Potatoes: Yukon gold, Adirondack blue, & red chieftain
Onions 🧅
Garlic 🧄
Flowers 💐
Garlic & Onion Cleaning & Sorting
Still harvesting and curing. Trimming, cleaning, and sorting. Slowly but surely we move through this process during the warmer portions of our work time. This allows the students and volunteers to get out of the heat of the sun and take advantage of this blessing of a shaded space that was provided to the farm through your donations. Thank you.
To learn more about the farm and what we do, please check out our website in the link in our bio or visit directly to our website at www.themadisonfarm.com
Good morning from The Madison Farm!
Birds are singing, sun is shining with its summer strength. We hope you have a lovely Friday as you go forth into the weekend. Rest and enjoy the beauty that we live in as you explore Tennessee this weekend.
What you see growing in this picture from left to right:
-Jade (green) Beans
- Velour (purple) Beans
- Gourmet Lettuce Blend
- Pink Beauty Radishes
- Gourmet Lettuce Blend
- Astro Arugula
- Detroit Dark Red Beets
In order to keep a consistent flow of produce to our wonderful community, we do multiple plantings (or successions) of crops that we harvest for your tables. There are a few crops that we don’t grow as they are not conducive for summer production (I.e. turnips and kales)just like we don’t grow tomatoes and other warm loving crops during the winter. A normal dance and balance of growing within our seasons. Enjoy the bounty and flavors of this abundant season.
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It’s tomato season y’all! So swing on by Goodlettsville Farmers Market this afternoon to grab some farm fresh maters! We’ll be in the parking lot of Historic Mansker's Station 3-7pm Thursdays.
P.s. we also have other delicious goodies and flowers to round out your tables!
This week’s bounty from our farm to your table:
Potatoes
Carrots
Beets
Lettuce Mix
Arugula
Beans (purple & green!)
Tomatoes
Summer Squash & Zucchini from Lost Weekend Farms
Sage
Basil
Oregano
Thyme
Garlic
Onions
Flowers
Fresh new goodies this week like delicate squash and the usual suspects will be at Goodlettsville Farmers Market tomorrow 3-7pm. Locally and organically grown veggies.
What we’re harvesting at the farm for your table:
- Carrots
- Beets
- Lettuce Mix
- Rainbow Swiss Chard
- Green (Jade) & Purple (Velour) Beans
- Potatoes (Yukon Gold & Adirondack Blue)
- Delicata Squash
- Hyloom Tomatoes (same great heirloom flavor without the crazy size and unreliability of heirloom tomatoes)
- Texas Legend and Red Candy Onions
- Summer Squash grown by Lost Weekend Farms
- Herbs: Dill, Basil, Thyme, Sage, Oregano
- Flowers: Jar Bouquets & Snap Dragon Bouquets (this may be the last round of snap dragons after the heat that’s coming our way)
Morning w**ding while it’s still cool out… student workers from are working hard this summer. Not only w**ding, but planting, harvesting, processing (preparing harvested produce for market), and more at the farm. If you’re interested in helping support the work study program at the farm, please click on our link in the bio. This program helps the students not only build a resume and work experience (and frankly a life skill too), but also helps them pay their tuition and be an investor in their learning.
They’re growing! Slowly, but surely… can’t wait to get these bush beans to y’all! Velour and Jade are the varieties we’re growing right now. Delicate and slender beans with a delicious flavor. My kiddos and I enjoy them raw on the farm, but are also yummy blanched.
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This Week’s Produce from Our Farm to Your Table:
Lettuce Mix
Spinach
Rainbow Swiss Chard
Carrots
Beets
Garlic Scapes
Summer Squash & Zucchini
Cherry Tomatoes
Sandwich Tomatoes
Onions
Sage
Oregano
Thyme
Flowers
Tuesday 3:30-6:30pm
Thursday 3-7pm at
Friday morning delivery at with limited produce selection
First harvest of our spring carrots!!! 🥕
We’ll have these beauties along with our other delicious veggies and flowers at Goodlettsville Farmers Market this Thursday, which is located at 3-7pm.
This week’s menu includes the following:
- Lettuce Mix
- Spinach
- Arugula
- Baby Kale Mix
- Bunching Greens (red Russian kale, black magic Lacinato/dinosaur kale, westlander curly kale, collards, rainbow Swiss chard)
- Garlic scapes
- Radishes
- Beets
- parsley
- sage
- oregano
- thyme
- flowers
- strawberries 🍓
Monday 3-5pm at the farm
Tuesday 3:30-6:30pm at
Thursday 3-7pm at
And Sun-Friday at in the cooler section. *limited selection available
These kiddos are awesome!👏 👏👏
5th grade arrived first and took in the instructions for the activities we were doing this afternoon. They then helped mentor the 4th graders in their carrot harvesting adventure. The kiddos used new tools responsibly, followed multi step instructions on new procedures, helped one another (as in taught one another how to do the new task), and were fearless in getting their hands dirty. Y’all are awesome sauce! Thank you 4th & 5th grade!
Where to find us this week:
🍓Monday 3-5 at the farm for Farm Stand Monday.
🍓Tuesday 3:30-6:30 at
🍓Thursday 3-7pm at at in front of the visitor center
🍓Sunday-Friday at in Goodlettsville we have a smaller menu of items that’ll be available there for purchase at your convenience. Find our greens in the refrigerator section, right below the
We’ll still have tot morning at the farm this Thursday (first Thursday of the month!) from 9-11am🙌
What we’ve harvested for your table:
Lettuce mix
Spinach
Arugula
Baby kale
Collards
Rainbow Swiss chard
Kales (curly, red Russian, & dinosaur)
Pea tendrils
Radishes
Strawberries (harvested fresh, on the day of market)
Sage
Thyme
Oregano
Parsley
Sage flowers
Nasturtium
Flower bouquets
Can’t wait to see y’all this week!
Strawberry season is slowly starting to begin. Did a first full harvest this afternoon. (See stories for strawberry order details)
I’ll have some strawberries at market this Tuesday at but it’ll only be a few, so first to market gets first dibs on berries! 🙌 also, keep an eye on social media for berry sales and ways to get these strawberries to your table!
New Produce Delivery Schedule for Nourish…
I’ll be delivering fresh produce to on Wednesdays around noon. Our veggies that like to stay cool (which is most of them right now) can be found in the refrigerated section of the store. Flower bouquets can still be found at our end-cap near the bulk food section.
This week we’ll have: lettuce mix, spinach, arugula, kale, Swiss chard, carrots, parsley, thyme, and flowers. And of course our beautiful hats can be found there too! Thank y’all for supporting your local farm 🙌
Farm Stand Monday 3-5pm at the farm. We only have a few more farm stand Mondays left this spring. We are on the property of so follow their signs for The Madison Farm.
This week we’ll have:
Lettuce Mix
Head Lettuces
Arugula
Spinach
Red Russian Kale
Lacinato Kale
Curly Kale
Rainbow Swiss Chard
Carrots
Radishes
Parsley
Nasturtium
Thyme
Oregano
Farm Herb Salts
Flowers
The greenhouse not only protects our plants, but also our students when we have class on cool early spring mornings.
Yesterday we learned about trimming tomato plants for greenhouse/high tunnel production. These tomatoes were seeded back at the beginning of January and they have been babies along the way. It’s a bit of a faith walk sending my students out to trim these plants after instruction on the how-to trim suckers… but they did an AWESOME JOB! 👏👏👏 there were no tomato plant fatalities. 🎉🙌
Note: tomatoes were trimmed and trellises with the system, which was purchased from
Gardening Class Field Trip to Lost Weekend Farms
Paul and Elisabeth showed the students different and innovative ways of growing similarly to what we do at the farm. This is part of what makes farming so fun! It’s always a treat to visit other farms and see what they’re doing. The farming community is incredible and we love being a part of it.
Spring is in the air and that means market season is getting ready to start! 🙌
We’ll see y’all at in a week from tomorrow!🙌🥳🎉🌷☀️
Potato planting has begun!
Our mighty student workers from are working hard to plant the potatoes that’ll end up in your suppers in the not so distant future.
What varieties are we growing, you may ask. Well, that is a wonderful question! We’re planting (in the order pictured) Red Chieftain, Adirondack Blue, and Yukon Gold.
Chijimisai
This beautiful green tastes like the love child between spinach and box choy. A great addition to a salad to amp up the nutrition and flavor while also expanding your palate. Also delicious as a warm side salad.
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When you’re in the middle of harvesting squash blossoms for market and realize that there’s someone else harvesting pollen too! 🐝 so… what else can you do but take a video… creation is so stinking cool!🤩
We hit the ground running! The inaugural BCS pass! We couldn’t be more stoked. @bcs_america
Having to hold hot water to feel my fingers again☺️, welcome to winter.
Love the look of these Schwarzer radishes. Such a vibe for the new year, all glam!
Some dried flower fun coming to @eastnashvillefarmersmarket today 3-6.
Washing radish lesson. 🤣
Sometimes we laugh so we don’t cry. Just a little humble brag on our grass growing abilities, no biggie. #farmerfail #weedingfail #stayhumble
Look at this heirloom beauty! 🤣 so wild!
Arugula coming at you! @eastnashvillefarmersmarket
Rolling up and moving out peas (don’t mind the weeds, their our best growing crop)
Another 50 feet of flowers planted...shhh, don’t tell...I’m supposed to be planting vegetables.
Our favorite time of day here, greeted with bird song and the stillness of 5 am.
Oh poppies. Be still my heart.
So many herbs this week! Mmmm!
I can’t stop swooning over these peas! Seriously stunning and snack perfection.
The Madison Farm is tucked away in Neelys Bend of Madison, just north of Nashville. The Madison Farm is a reboot of the original that was founded in 1904 on 440 acres that was Madison College, and is today Madison Academy.
Shannon and Jenni are the Farm Managers of The Madison Farm; in collaboration with two students, Kendra and Patrick, are spearheading this agriculture revolution for our schools and community.
The purpose of The Madison Farm is to revolutionize holistic learning and service through year-round biointensive farming. We plan to do this by empowering people to live a life of intention by integrating education with agriculture. It is our goal to develop practical skills in students, while enhancing the Madison area by providing opportunities for healthy-living education, community outreach, and sustainable initiatives. We are Rooted in God and Growing for Good.
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