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Missing In Action

Farm work by any standards is tough…hot and sweaty work. You really do have to love and have a passion for this way of life. My husband Mark who was born in inter-city Pittsburgh…yankee…city boy…never in his wildest dreams would have thought he would of found himself living much less loving living and working on [...]
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What its like to be apart of the farm’s CSA Program?

    A shareholder in the farm’s CSA program wrote a article about her personal experience in the CSA program.  For those of you that are thinking about join a farm’s CSA either here at Madison Creek Farms or a local organic farm near your community hearing from those that already participate in such a [...]
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Market, CSA and Everything in between

Farm Open Saturday 9-2pm Last Saturday was the opening day for our on-farm market. How much fun it was to see all those familiar faces we haven’t seen all winter plus we got to meet so many new people that had never been to the farm before.  The market is and as been from the [...]
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Red Mustards…new to the market

There are a few field trials going on this year here at the farm for a few new varieties in vegetables and flowers. One of these new vegetable trials we are growing is Garnet Red Mustard Greens from Johnny Seeds in Maine.  A cool weather crop that has really added a shot of color in [...]
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A Blackberry Winter

Here we are in May and what’s that I hear…my weather bug on my computer warning me of a frost tonight! And if there is to be frost I am sure as peaches we here in this valley in Sumner County will get it. We sit in a little bit of a micro-climate as it [...]
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Fast Food to Slow Food

We are swinging into our spring season here on the farm and the crops are coming in. We held our Spring CSA gathering for our shareholders here on the farm this last weekend and their first pickup of the season went home with them. Mark and I really enjoyed meeting the new shareholders and sharing [...]
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Shareholders Gathering this Saturday!

After a rained out weekend last week we had to move our CSA gathering to this Saturday. Mark and I are excited to kick off our 2011 CSA season here on the farm.  I want to thank our shareholders for being so gracious and understanding about having to cancel last weekends event..I didn’t realize this [...]
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Ready To CSA

This week we are kicking off our Community Supported Agriculture season or CSA for short. This is a program where shareholders sign up early in the year for a share of the farm’s produce. Our CSA is the backbone of the farm and nothing to me is more important then taking care of our CSA [...]
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All things Considered..and those that were not.

Scheduling anything with a specific dates around when crops are expected to be ready is tricky to say the least. Weather being the leading component that can throw you a week or a few days off of when you think your crops will be ready to harvest. Spring has always been the toughest when it [...]
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CSA News & Farm Update

  Spring has arrived here at Madison Creek Farms…Our May tulips are all blooming early but they light up the farm with colors only Mother Nature can create. We have been busy planting up a great spring and early summer season in last few weeks. Now we are getting ready to move into planting our [...]
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