Skip the stress of finding that last minute Mothers Day gift, and get all of the speaical moms in your life what they realllllly want right at @thecoffeefactorymuskegon 💕Fill a cute lil to-go carrier with • your moms favorite delicious drink ☕• a homemade treat 🍪• a farm fresh bouquet 💐• a one of a kind handmade card 📝• a new book from @booknook_javashop 📚 A mom approved gift for all of the local loving gals in your life ✨
We have all the green you need to celebrate St Patrick’s Day 🍀 Hardy greens, mild greens, spicy greens, sweet greens, dark greens, light greens - we quite literally have a sea of delicious greens! 🥬 If you love all things green, then you will LOVE our CSA!Shares are filling up quickly, so you will want to hop on over to our website to reserve your share today! #stpatricksday #green #farmfresh #smallfarm #localfood #veggies #fruit #flowers #chemicalfree #farmersmarket #csa #csafarm #csashare #organic #certifiednaturallygrown #cngproud
This may be giving some mad infomercial vibes, but hey, how else do ya share so much info in so little time?!
My donation based virtual group gardening courses start up TOMORROW evening at 6pm!
Over the next 6 weeks I will be hosting weekly 45 minute virtual Group Garden Planning sessions! These sessions will be led by me, Sam, and will focus on my tried and true tip and tricks to growing a thriving backyard garden and connecting with your green space. These classes are donation based drop in classes - attend one or attend all!
Class Schedule:
March 13th - Garden Planning Basics
March 20th - Selecting and Sourcing Seeds For Your Space
March 27th - Seed Starting Basics
April 3rd - Compost Basics
April 10th - Garden Prep + Matinence
April 17th - Harvesting, Preserving, and Successions
All participants receive a virtual copy of my garden guide to use as a continued resource as they create their green spaces
Sign up on our website under the “shop” tab and you will receive a zoom link for tomorrow’s class!
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Wooohooooo CSA Week is a wrap and we have a winner for our Midsummer Meal in the Field giveaway!
The BIGGEST MOST GRACIOUS thank you to everyone who has purchased a CSA so far this season! Your early season investments truly do make a world of difference!
If you haven’t purchased a CSA and would like to, there are still a number of spots to reserve on our website! We have a number of costs coming up with the installation of our new water well, electricity, and other up and coming farm costs. The offset of CSA will surely save the day for us as we make these big big investments ☀️
Looking forward to growing you an abundance this season 💛
Day ✌🏽of #CSAWEEK calls for an introduction!
If you have been searching high and low for a lil local farmer to support this season, I am your gal!
After a decade of growin’ good food, I have perfected my craft and filled it with so much love and intention!
2024 is lookin’ bright as ever, and I cannot wait to meet this years CSA members in just a few short months!
Interested in signing up for a share? Bop on over to the ‘shop’ page of our website!
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2023 was the year of slowly and quietly introducing farm foraged products, and 2024 is the year that we are sharing them loud and proud!
I have been foraging for years, and have loved sharing my foraged creations over a cup of tea, as gifts, and most recently with customers on the market table!
Expanding into these value added products has been a venture, but I am so excited to be sharing them with folks (locally and on our website!)
I am even more excited to be connecting folks with plants growing at their fingertips, so that they too can craft these great edible and medicinal products 🌿
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Hoping on this trend train…because gosh, there are just so many funny little things about the day in a life of a first generation female farmer 👩🏼🌾
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I am working hard behind the scenes to prepare the farm for another season of abundant harvests! 👩🏼🌾
A key part in a successful season is the early season investment that needs to be made to secure things like quality seed, nutritious soil, crucial tools, and more.
These investments come at a time when West Michigan fields are at rest for the snowy season , and the farm brings in little income.
To make these investments possible, I really on a cool lil offering called CSA.
CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture, and is an opportunity to create a relationship with community members by allowing them to buy a seasonal share into the farm.
How it works:
Customers pay an upfront lump sum in the winter or early spring to secure their CSA share/membership.
I use the funds received to purchase all that I need to make the season a success.
THEN, over the 16 week main season, abundant harvests are returned to these members in a weekly (or biweekly) basket with 6-12 freshly harvested farm fruits + veggies each week.
It’s a lovely partnership between a farmer and their community, and something that I cherish through each and every season 💛
Why you should sign up:
- You have access to chemical free, certified naturally grown farm fresh veg ALL SEASON LONG
- You’ll receive a great variety of items - most familiar, with occasional fun and unique offerings over the course of the season PLUS you’ll receive endless tips, tricks, ideas and tried+true recipes for each item
- supporting CSA means supporting local AND supporting the environment
I’d love to be your farmer this season! - Your support will surely make me do a happy dance🌿
Annnnnnnnd for those veggie haters out there, we have bouquet CSAs too 💐
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The raffle has been drawn and winners have been emailed!
And good golly gosh am I just so incredibly grateful for my community!
I was initially super hesitant to offer a raffle - I wasn't sure how it would be perceived or if it would be worth while.
My hesitation was quickly met with warm welcome and so much support!
We managed to raise 1/3 of the remaining quoted amount, leaving a remaining balance that we can work toward!
My heart is so full of endless amounts of love and gratitude for all of ya!
Even in the toughest of times, I am so thrilled to be here in this little West MI community growing good food - I am truly so lucky to be able to do so!
In times where the world is heavy, where the holidays can be hard, and well…this economy 🥴.. I am filled with so much gratitude for the continued support + investment in the farm. I truly couldn't make it happen without ya!
Sending the biggest most gracious thank ya to all who supported the raffle through likes, shares, and contributions - I cannot wait to share in the abundant harvests in 2024 🌿
Asking for help is always a little weird..and hard..and a bit uncomfy.As a ‘do it myself’ type of gal, I am always a bit reluctant to admit that I occasionally need a bit of help.Over the last couple years of navigating the land snafu and water woes, I’ve learned that help exists and that it’s truly a wonderful thing as I build this little dream of mine from the ground up. There have been so many helping hands that have stepped up in a number of ways to get me past the agonizing moments of working through the chaos of a big real estate mistake that snowballed into many messes to follow - helping me to keep the farm alive and plans moving along.We’ve come so far after battling so many barriers and set backs over the last 2 seasons. So much further than I ever imagined I could, given the resources I had. So much of this success has come in the form of community support!As I prepare to enter season 5 of the farm and season 3 on this piece of land, I am SO DANG CLOSE to being able to fund the drilling of a deep well. I truly cannot survive another season without water. The past two have been devastating to the farm and it cannot continue sustainably without a water source. I have been saving every little bit that I can to put this project into action, and while we are making progress, it unfortunately is not fast enough to ensure we have a water source well before next season starts. (It is truly just around the corner! ) I am hoping to offset the remaining cost of the well by offering a CSA RAFFLE! I currently need to collect about 160 more entries to be able to cover the invoice of the well, and book an appointment! If you are a local food lovin’ person who wants to support our well drilling endeavors + try your chance at winning a CSA Share,a Flower CSA Share, or Market Card, consider entering this raffle!Entries are $25/each or 5/$100. They can be purchased🌿on the website🌿by venmoing @thewoventrifecta🌿stopping by Sweetwater Farmers Market on Sat
The content I strive to create vs 99% of the content saved in my phone 🥴
I’m always striving to share little snippets of the farm with ya all, and while I try to keep up with the aesthetic of dreamy farm dreams, most of my farm days are filled with chaotic daily tasks, straying away from the list of to dos, and pure excitement over things like random potatoes growing in the compost pile..but forreal look at those potatoes 🥔
Adding sheep to the farm has been a whirlwind of wonderfulness 🌀
I’ve always known I wanted sheep..long before I knew I wanted a farm, but never did I imagine the amount of sheer joy they bring me on the daily. So many sheep snuggles in the pasture, shared treats through the fence, and conversations in the field. They’ve brought so much life to their little corner of the farm and it has my little farmer heart overflowing with love 💛
Fall is right around the corner, and that means the craft table is about to be filled to the brim with dried florals for wreaths, crowns, brooms,bouquets, and more!
Growing these florals and creating with them is such a joy and something that I look forward to all season long. This season I have been hard at work hanging flowers weekly - here are some varieties that I am most excited to use in upcoming creations!
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The field is POPPIN’ with veggies (and a few weeds, too) these days!
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A dreamy early morning spent twiddling feverfew and conversing with the sheepers and song birds.
The outside thermometer read a crisp 48° this morning. Fall plantings are embracing the chill, while those sweet summer favorites are shaking off the morning dew, awaiting the warmth of the mid day sun.
I’m hanging on to these last threads of summer, yet ready to dip my toes into the slow down of the season. While fall may be right around the corner, we are just halfway through the main farm season with no end to veggies in sight! I’m looking forward to preserving an abundance of crops over the next several weeks to enjoy throughout the snowy season. In the meantime I am just out here enjoying this shift in weather
The bees are a’buzzin’ 🐝
The field has been full of bees of all kinds, flying from flower to flower, taking their pollinator positions very seriously!
This colony of honey bees has been hard at work, keeping the field pollinated and building up their hive. It’s amazing to observe them, and absolutely wild to see inside their hive. I am looking forward to a sweet sweet honey harvest in the near future!
HOLY GARLIC-MOLEEEEEEE, the very first head of garlic to be harvested this year is as big, beautiful, and potent as ever!
I’ve been fretting over the garlic for the past 2 months, watching the stalks battle the ever changing elements and suffer through the drought. I’ve never irrigated my garlic in all of my years of growing it, but I sure would have this year if I could have! By the beginning of June, those stalks were struggling to strive. So much so that I often turned my head the other way, as I couldn’t bare the thought of losing this staple crop. The harvest was looking seldom from the stalks - so seldom that I put in an early seed order for fall planting with the assumption that I would not have any seed grade garlic, and a small glistening hope I would at least have a handful of decent sized heads for CSA to enjoy.
Yesterday was the first harvest - just a few fresh garlic heads for CSA members. I aimed for the smaller stalks, and hoped for the best, assuming I wouldn’t pull up much more than a clove. To my dismay, that very first sad little stalk was hiding a gorgeous ginormous head of garlic. I’m absolutely delighted, and eager to clear out these beds and flip them into the seasons next crop!
Garlic will be sent to storage for the next several weeks to cure, providing it with some longevity to nourish us all throughout the cold winter months. Once cured, you can find these big ol’ bunches of garlic on the market table!
This weather has us all dreaming up of the long and delightful days soon to be had in the garden!
These bright and sunshiny days are a wonderful time to prep your space for the season. If you are in need of seed or seedlings to complete your garden space this season, be sure to head on over to the website to reserve some farm fresh seedlings! All seedlings are sold in 3” pots and are grown using USDA certified organic seed + Organic potting soil. All seedlings are certified naturally grown+ grown with love and ready to thrive in your garden space this season! 🌱
