Bountiful Harvest Farm

07/21/2024

And so it begins!!!

07/21/2024

We are so happy to donate to Table to Table each week. They offer a great service and come around with boxes for us to fill up with items that didn’t sell for donations. I mean obviously we want to sell every single thing we bring to market, but if we don’t we absolutely want it to go to good use through all those in our community. Table to Table picks up items and distributes them to local pantries, food banks and other venues that supply food to our underserved community members. It feel so great knowing our food and hard with will be on plates of all in our area and thankful for all the Table to Table volunteers who pickup that produce from us each week! Table to Table

07/21/2024

A BIG thank you to all our amazing community that came out and purchased fabulous and delicious produce from us today. Best Market of the Season… so far 😉. We will keep bringing the goods and you keep bringing your bags to load up!!!!

07/20/2024

Hey hey It’s Market Day!!!!!!! Come see us and grab some amazingly delicious produce today til Noon at the Iowa City Farmers Market

07/20/2024

We have had a great time with Amber, Angie’s cousin’s daughter. She came to visit and work with us at the farm this entire week. And boy did we get a lot done. Here’s the market list that we will have at the Iowa City Farmers Market tomorrow, July 19th. See you from 7:30a-Noon… and bring your bags to load up!!!

07/18/2024

Come on down to the North Liberty Neighborhood Market!!! 4:30-7:30pm

07/18/2024

We will see you today at the North Liberty Neighborhood Market at Colony Acres Family Farm from 4:30pm-7:30pm. Vendors, food trucks, and live music on a beautiful Iowa summer night - yes please! Colony Acres Family Farm

07/18/2024

Come on out to the North Liberty Neighborhood Market at the Farm tomorrow, Thursday, July 18th. Look at this great line up of growers, makers, producers food trucks, musicians etc etc etc. The weather is going to be beautiful so come on out and support local! Colony Acres Family Farm

07/16/2024

We are getting geared up for the second North Liberty Neighborhood Market of the season. We will see you this Thursday at Colony Acres from 4:30-7:30pm. Bring your bags and load up on all kinds of goodies from local vendors...and us! Colony Acres Family Farm

07/13/2024

FARM FRESH VEGGIES!!!! See you soon

07/13/2024

Market List

07/13/2024

So… yeah… the long day turned into tomorrow… aka Saturday. That’s 1:14am folks! 🤪🤣🙃🤨😳😱🫣. See you at market - TODAY

07/11/2024

Got to the farm just before 6am to open structures and harvest cauliflower, cucumbers, zucchini and summer squash. Then… off we went to Brighton, IA to a Practical Farmers of Iowa Field Day at Blueberry Bottom U-Pick Farm. We then went through Kalona for some supply run stops. Great rejuvenating and inspirational day!

07/10/2024

Here’s to a fabulous Wednesday… it’s CSA Delivery Day!!!!

07/07/2024

I mean...you KNOW you all need your car washed ❤️

Starting TOMORROW, make a splash! 🌊

If your car is in need of some TLC and you want to support the NLCP, you can do both by using this link to buy a wash at Speedy Mike's Car Wash!

ONLY washes bought through this link between July 8-14 will benefit the NLCP!

Buy your wash here! https://f.optspot.co/mgjts7nm

This week, half of the proceeds from this link will go towards the Planting New Roots campaign, which you can find details about on our website. The mission of this campaign is to establish a strong support system in the community for our friends and neighbors in need of help. By opening a new building and raising funds for the Pantry, we ensure that none of our community members will go hungry.

07/07/2024

What do you plan to make this week to keep your family going and fill your bellies? See comments below for what we are working on today to get us prepped and ready to work hard all week long!!!! PLEASE take a moment to share your meal plans for the week 🥰

07/07/2024

A couple weeks ago we shared some hot & spicy oregano with a fellow market vendor, .and.annas.garden. This week they shared this absolutely stunning Cuban oregano with us and we can’t wait to try it out. We LOVE our community!

07/06/2024

Farmers Market - LET’S GO!!!!!!

07/06/2024

We’ve got a great lineup of produce for you! See you from 7:30-Noon today at the Iowa City Farmers Market

07/05/2024

Good Morning and good greens harvest for market tomorrow!!!

07/05/2024

Wow this isn’t how we thought today was gonna go, but we are thankful for the rain free day to get things done! In anticipation of heavy rain day we harvested potatoes early and have a good load for market. We then switched gears to pulling out w**ds that came up in our flower fabric that hadn’t been planted yet so we can throw some seeds in. THEN we went into the holy hot and humid hightunnel (even with shade cloth on) to cultivate, amend and rake out beds and transplant romaine lettuce and frisée. After that we divided and conquered… Marla on cucumber, summer squash and zucchini harvest while also trying to remove squash vine borers and unfortunately discard of dying plants 🤨… Angie on some serious w**ding of the beautiful little Salanova head lettuce from what happens when you get rain and rain and rain and rain on a small farm. Wooo - what a day. Now to watch some fireworks on tv cause we need some sitting and ac 🤣🤣🤣🤣. HAPPY SAFE 4th all! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

07/04/2024

When you can’t leave the farm for the 4th… you bring the 4th to the Farm!!!! This is the driest the fields are gonna be for awhile and that ain’t dry, but we’ve got a market on Saturday so trying to harvest as much as we can before another possible storm tonight. And while doing that we are wearing all the red, white and blue and decked out the gator in flags. HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY, AMERICA!!!!

07/04/2024

To all our CSA Members, Market Customers, Friends, Family and those that like to just see what’s going on at our small farm via social media 🥰 - HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY. Have a safe, relaxing and fun Holiday.

07/04/2024

Marla ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ onions and was so excited to harvest some Spring Onions for our Summer CSA members. These will be great on the grill, in salads, sautéed, roasted etc etc etc. We hope you all enjoy your Week 5 Summer Shares and we wish every one a safe and happy Fourth of July!!!

07/03/2024

Part of Week 5 Summer CSA Shares are out the door!!! New Red Potatoes, Kohlrabi, Basil, Red Russian Kale, Napa Cabbage, Garlic Scapes, Parsley, Spring Onions, Chioggia Beets!

07/02/2024

Yup… sirens as an end to an absolutely humid, rainy, mud filled day. Home now - be safe all. And to all my farming friends -you better be inside!!! 😁

07/02/2024

Started the day with some off farm job zoom calls, a run to a friends farm to grab some bales of straw, put down w**d barrier fabric, planted 110 more winter squash to finish out our melon and winter squash plantings, placed straw around those crops and watered in (we are hoping that by hand watering it will give us a better chance of straw staying in place with possible storms tomorrow), harvested around 70 pounds of new potatoes AND moved the final 90 ish tomato cages and got them all secured. WOW WOW WOW WOW! Hello Monday.

07/01/2024

Woo! We got our hot peppers and half our sweet peppers weaved up for support and they are looking great. Marla moved cages for tomato trellising (we’ve got just one more row to go!) And we laid landscape fabric and Angie planted our cantaloupes, seeded watermelons, and almost all our winter squash. We’ve got one more row to go but had to wave the white flag on the day hahaha. Now to close up and head home! Happy Sunday all!

06/30/2024

Up at 3:50am, Farmers Market til noon, nap after market on packshed floor with fan running, then back to work tearing out old/spent beds in tunnel and pruned & trellised up tomato row in tunnel. Today was a beautiful Iowa summer day. We will be back at it tomorrow with a monster to-do list on what should be another glorious Iowa day!

06/29/2024