On a dreary, rainy day (with more coming) let’s start by talking about something bright and cheerful… FLOWERS!

Flowers are important to us for a myriad of reasons. Just as chemical free, nutrient dense produce is important, it’s important in flower growing and flowers are about 10 years behind organic produce. Most flowers that are found in markets are imported from South America and with long distances to travel and very little oversight (it’s not food so the rules are much more lax) the chemicals on them can be pretty atrocious. You should not be smelling these flowers or putting them on your dinning table, they’re toxic. All the while buying local flowers (beyond being chemical free) supports our local farmers.

2024 will bring something big back to our farm, a return to more on-farm education at Singing Frogs Farm. We’re excited. For years we held multiple intensive workshops and in some years even had a thousand people out to the farm for various workshops and tours. The pandemic shut that down and health issues in the Kaiser family haven’t allowed it to return, but now it’s time. We’re thrilled to have support from a former crew member Noah who not only knows the ins and outs of this farm but is great at education, plus we also have support from so much of our current crew, who enjoys sharing what is so deeply meaningful to them.

Happy New Year! We hope you’ve had some good time with family or friends over the deep of winter.

Every winter we get excited for the slower time of year to focus on “Winter Projects”. Often these projects focus on maintaining farm infrastructure. In Spring, Summer and Autumn, as is typical for farmers, we are so busy with the work of producing food that we use the slower time to do this upkeep.

Photo collage shows fixing structure with ripped plastic from winter ‘22/23 storms, taking down the old, putting up the new and building new doors.

2023 has been quite a year but one thing is for sure, our CSA has been tremendous. That means you. Our CSA has been a larger percentage of our production than ever before with higher membership and more of you through this winter than we’ve ever before without reducing like prior winters! We’re so grateful for you. The CSA is key to our mission of bringing nutrient dense food and connection to our local community. Working to solve the world’s problems one cabbage at a time. Thank you for joining us in this, we know there are other options and we’re honored to have you. It’s been a challenging year but you are a highlight!

Monday was a big day as we went LIVE with online EBT/SNAP abilities for our CSA. Although the ability to pay online with EBT has been legally allowed for two years, it is such an onerous process, only large retailers have been able to reach those customers. We are one of the first small farms in the USA to achieve this!