Week of March 25th – the farm box essentials

Every week our farm box is loaded with sweet carrots and crispy fresh lettuce. Sometimes it’s good to take a step back and appreciate the process. Every 10 days -2 weeks a few guys sit at a table and hand seed the lettuce into flats of soil. The flats then sit in a special area …

Week of 3/18 – Spring on the horizon

Spring is on the horizon according to the vegetables, although today feels more like summer. With this kind of unexpected heat, problems can arise. Zucchinis are growing at such a rapid rate the workers need to stay late to get all the squash out of the field. I honestly have never seen people work as …

Week of March 11th – Chickens Galore, and all about them

It’s really important to know where your food comes from and how it’s grown. So let’s talk eggs, specifically the ones you buy from Something Good Organics. Our chickens reside in a large coop that’s enclosed from top to bottom. We’d love to do complete free range, but the predators around the farm haven’t allowed …

Week of March 4th – Sweet Strawberries!

We were really excited to see rain coming this weekend. A lot of planning and work comes along with this much needed watering. We seeded radishes, cilantro, curly and flat leaf parsley, our last crop of red and gold beets and we planted our first crop of carrots up in Buellton on the new property. …