Sweet Morning Farm
Saturday, April 22, 2023
NO FARM SHARES THIS YEAR
Friday, November 26, 2021
FARM STAND UPDATE - November 2021
We have a good steady supply of storage vegetables, eggs, pork, and beef.
We check the stand daily and stock as needed. If you have special requests (a certain cut of meat, a large amount of a vegetable, pick up at a special time, need to use an EBT or credit card, etc.)
To find out what has recently been stocked in the stand, SIGN UP to receive emails about new items and changes. We welcome your ideas and we are very glad to share our produce with you. We wish you health and happiness!
- One customer/household at a time.
- Winter hours are 12:00 - 5:00.
- Call or email if you need assistance.
- Pay by check, cash, venmo ("sweetmorning"), credit card, or EBT card. We need to be present at the stand in order to process cards and to process HIP, so it is best to call or email ahead to set that up.
- If you are unfamiliar with HIP, it is a terrific program to get fresh food to people without reducing your EBT monies. More information is available HERE or just ask us. You can get HIP for all vegetables. EBT can be used for meat and eggs as well.
- Email is the easiest way to contact us in general. sweetmorningfarm@gmail.com
910 Greenfield Rd
Leyden, MA 01337
413-773-8325
sweetmorningfarm@gmail.com
Monday, February 1, 2021
A NEW YEAR, A FRESH START
PLANNING & RESTING
It's a cold and snowy winter day. Our farming activities are focused on caring for the animals (pigs, cows, chickens, cats, rabbit, wild birds), looking back and looking ahead, resting, dreaming, and planning. Seed planting has begun in a small way. We're warming up for the spring!
FARM STAND
This winter we've been offering vegetables, eggs, and meat at our open-air farm stand. The stand runs on a pre-order system. We send an email twice a week listing what we have available and people place orders to be picked up on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Send us a message if you are interested. sweetmorningfarm@gmail.com
Once the weather is warmer we'll go back to stocking the stand continuously and people will be able to stop by at their convenience. For now, anything we leave in the stand is at risk of freezing, hence the pre-order system. We are hoping to be able to build a larger, stronger, weather-proof, year-round stand later in the spring. We'll keep you posted about that.
NEW GREENHOUSE
We are very grateful to have been awarded a Food Security Infrastructure Grant from the state of Massachusetts. This will enable to to build a second high tunnel almost twice as large as our current tunnel. We're so glad that we'll be able to grow more food for our community.
NO FARM SHARES THIS YEAR
We have decided to focus on our farm stand here in Leyden and selling at farmers' markets this year. So no CSA in 2021 but we are planning on keeping the farm stand well stocked with the vegetables you have enjoy in your shares from previous years. Look for bok choy, spinach, carrots, radishes, mesclun and lots more this spring. In the meantime, enjoy the snow and quiet time. Stay healthy and warm!
Sunday, May 10, 2020
FARM SHARES are BACK
In the winter we had decided to focus on farmers' markets this year but life and our plans have changed!
So the shares are back on for 2020.
We are happy about it because we have the food and want to share it with people and feel confident we can do that safely. We also found it very hard to let go of the shares so now we get a reprieve from that tough decision.
There's more information about the shares at the 'farm share' page of this blog and you can see pictures of past shares at the 'what's in my share?' page.
Someone asked us recently about what we grow for the shares. We made a list and you can see that we like growing vegetables and we like sharing them with people. Here is an incomplete list of what we are growing in 2020.
(Really, there are other things we also growing!)
Friday, May 1, 2020
Farm Stand - May 1, 2020
Friday, April 24, 2020
April 24 update
We sure wish we had more for you.
Hopefully the harvest will pick up soon.
We'll stock more parsnips and meat tomorrow.
There should be more radishes next week.
And the pea shoots are looking great and really close to being ready!
We planted more lettuce, chard, and kale in the garden this week...
Farm Stand - April 24, 2020
Added to the stand:
10 bags spinach
3 bags mesclun
4 bunches of radishes!
Quantities of vegetables are still pretty small but they taste good.
There are plenty of eggs, parsnips, pork and beef.
Email if you want a special cut of meat.
9:00 - 6:00
1 customer at a time
Cards or checks only, call us to use a credit or EBT card
Sanitize your hands before using the stand.
By the way, you can get HIP awards (Healthy Incentive Program) at our stand for the vegetables. Email or call for more information.