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Roving Donkey Farm Founded in 2012, Roving Donkey Farm is a family owned vegetable farm located north of Bismarck. We strive to be chemical free and soil friendly.

We market our products through CSA, direct sales and local restaurants.

Too early to tell the damage as it’s still storming, but it looked like snow for a while here. :(
30/07/2024

Too early to tell the damage as it’s still storming, but it looked like snow for a while here. :(

Got scapes?
13/07/2024

Got scapes?

How a farm cat avoids the rain?! How is this even comfortable?
03/07/2024

How a farm cat avoids the rain?! How is this even comfortable?

Sometimes the milkweed comes up in the garlic and you leave it there rather than pull it. Every little bit helps save m...
30/06/2024

Sometimes the milkweed comes up in the garlic and you leave it there rather than pull it. Every little bit helps save monarch habitat!

Sentinel sunflower in the high tunnel.
28/06/2024

Sentinel sunflower in the high tunnel.

Tomatoes are taking off! I put them on trellis string that will keep them off the ground and easier to prune and harves...
27/06/2024

Tomatoes are taking off! I put them on trellis string that will keep them off the ground and easier to prune and harvest from. Even found some pretty babies. I can taste the Sungolds already!

What’s your favorite tomato?

This is a day that brings a variety of emotions for me. As a daughter, it is sad. As a mother it is joyful (and exhauste...
12/05/2024

This is a day that brings a variety of emotions for me. As a daughter, it is sad. As a mother it is joyful (and exhausted!). As a human it is conflicted. Whatever this day means to you, may it be the day you want it to be.

Farm work is dirty work and the results of some of that work doesn’t show until plants are growing and producing. It is ...
01/05/2024

Farm work is dirty work and the results of some of that work doesn’t show until plants are growing and producing. It is the most important work though, setting the foundation for the seedlings in the greenhouse.

The last week has been spent prepping the high tunnel for the coming season. This special structure requires special care and this year the beds needed to be reshaped.

After a fair amount of raking, spreading of amendments, shaping, harrowing and covering the soil back up, we have watered in the additions and now we let nature take its course.

The tomatoes will be here before we know it!

Doesn’t look like much now, but very soon I’ll be picking rhubarb and walking onions. Asparagus won’t be far behind! Ya...
24/04/2024

Doesn’t look like much now, but very soon I’ll be picking rhubarb and walking onions. Asparagus won’t be far behind! Yay, spring!

My son told me he had to show me something in the living room before we left for school. Good eye, buddy, good eye!
15/02/2024

My son told me he had to show me something in the living room before we left for school. Good eye, buddy, good eye!

Stay warm out there folks! I hope the high tunnel plastic holds! 🥶
13/01/2024

Stay warm out there folks! I hope the high tunnel plastic holds! 🥶

Happy Thanksgiving from our farm to you!
24/11/2023

Happy Thanksgiving from our farm to you!

Getting six inches of snow before Halloween panicked this farmer a bit! Garlic and shallots for next season get planted...
08/11/2023

Getting six inches of snow before Halloween panicked this farmer a bit! Garlic and shallots for next season get planted in the fall and I was not looking forward to doing that in the snow.

I enlisted the help of some fantastic farm friends in addition to a snow shovel and landscape blower to get it done last weekend. I couldn’t be more relieved! Of course it warmed right up in the days after we were done.

When the dump has free wood chips, this farmer stocks up! One does come across some interesting stuff. This year, the o...
08/10/2023

When the dump has free wood chips, this farmer stocks up!

One does come across some interesting stuff. This year, the oddest find was a fork and the log in the second photo. How did that get through the chipper?!

Found this beast when harvesting today. Even with daily checking, some of these bad boys slip by!
15/09/2023

Found this beast when harvesting today. Even with daily checking, some of these bad boys slip by!

Why did the turtle cross the road?This little guy was making it’s way across the road when I arrived home today. I eased...
13/09/2023

Why did the turtle cross the road?

This little guy was making it’s way across the road when I arrived home today. I eased its journey and put it in the ditch so it could find a safe place sooner.

I haven’t seen one so large in our area before so it was a fun find. As soon as I set it in the grass, all of the moving and seeing parts popped back out and off it took.

A little bit of rain yesterday and a whole lot of wind. It is so wet, I haven’t ventured into the beds to see how everyt...
06/09/2023

A little bit of rain yesterday and a whole lot of wind. It is so wet, I haven’t ventured into the beds to see how everything fared.

Thankfully we didn’t see any of the possibly inch and a half hail! Did you get hail where you are?

Survival of the fittest at its finest!
03/09/2023

Survival of the fittest at its finest!

I’m trying arbol chili peppers for the first time this year. They are generally sold dried and pack some really nice hea...
30/08/2023

I’m trying arbol chili peppers for the first time this year. They are generally sold dried and pack some really nice heat.

The plants are heavily set with fruit. I hope there is time for them to all turn red! I’ll string them up and let them dry so I can make some killer salsa this winter.

What is your favorite spicy pepper?

Did you know it is easy to save bean and pea seed from your own harvest each year? Just leave overripe pods on the plan...
24/08/2023

Did you know it is easy to save bean and pea seed from your own harvest each year? Just leave overripe pods on the plant to dry completely, harvest and shell. Done!

This is the Homesteader shelling pea from Prairie Road Organic Seed. Very prolific and super delicious!!

I’m glad I harvested onions before the rain. After a bit of curing and cleaning, they will hold in storage for several ...
22/08/2023

I’m glad I harvested onions before the rain. After a bit of curing and cleaning, they will hold in storage for several months. We have eaten these yellow onions all the way into May of the following year!

The yellow onions are Dakota Tears from Prairie Road Organic Seed and the red are Red Wing from Johnny's Selected Seeds.

Sunflowers….🌻
20/08/2023

Sunflowers….

🌻

We grow three varieties of summer squash for our customers. The different colors complement their dishes. All three have...
18/08/2023

We grow three varieties of summer squash for our customers. The different colors complement their dishes. All three have slightly different flavors and textures.

Garlic came out a couple weeks ago. Harvest looks great this year.I have been selecting this garlic for close to 10 year...
16/08/2023

Garlic came out a couple weeks ago. Harvest looks great this year.

I have been selecting this garlic for close to 10 years. When I choose what I’m going to plant in the fall for next season, I select bulbs that have a minimum of four cloves, if not more.

This garlic has a nice spice and the cloves are easy to peel. What do you love to do with garlic?

Tomatillo plants get so big, there is no taming them! I gave up some years ago and go hunting once a week when they hav...
14/08/2023

Tomatillo plants get so big, there is no taming them! I gave up some years ago and go hunting once a week when they have been flowering for a while. Aren’t the flowers pretty?

Hi! After some unplanned radio silence, this farm girl has decided it is time to start sharing again!When one is mostly...
14/08/2023

Hi! After some unplanned radio silence, this farm girl has decided it is time to start sharing again!

When one is mostly a one woman show, it is challenging to find time in the day for all the things.

I hope you have been having a lovely summer. Cheers to all of you!




One of these things is not like the other!Three hours of weeding and clearly the onions are doing well.Now for the next ...
03/06/2023

One of these things is not like the other!

Three hours of weeding and clearly the onions are doing well.

Now for the next bed of onions/weeds!



My weeding buddy today!
27/05/2023

My weeding buddy today!

More green, er, red things waking up!This is our patch of Canada Red rhubarb. I’m dreaming if crisps and syrup already! ...
28/04/2023

More green, er, red things waking up!

This is our patch of Canada Red rhubarb. I’m dreaming if crisps and syrup already!





Green things! These are called walking onions and are often the first things up each year, closely followed by rhubarb....
18/04/2023

Green things! These are called walking onions and are often the first things up each year, closely followed by rhubarb.

A bit of snow isn’t going to keep them hibernating!




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Today was a pepper day! A day to pot up peppers in the greenhouse. Watch the video to learn more and go sign up for a CSA share so you can get yourself some of those peppers this summer!

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