Greens For Good

These are crazy times. I am so grateful for the groundedness that farming provides. I am so grateful for the ability to access land and opportunities that my privilege provides. 

That's why this week, as a kick off to our 2020 farm sales, we are donating the proceeds of our sales to two amazing organizations advancing food justice on many fronts through their work with food access and farmer support-

National Black Food & Justice Alliance & Soul Fire Farm.  We're not free until we are all free and all communities are free to grow and eat their own nutritious, nourishing foods.

So in a mixed up world, we're mixing up our model. This week we offer a limited amount of Spring shares, we're calling Greens for Good. They will have kale, bok choi, green onions, mustard greens (my fave! Great with pork and any sesame soy concoction you can throw their way) and more. We're skipping the substitutions this week so we can move more shares and raise more money. 

DELIVERY AVAILABLE IN WASHBURN & ASHLAND currently. We will accept orders until Thursday at noon or until shares sell out.

Please order & pay through our farm stand :

And detail where you would like your no contact delivery placed-if you won't be home Friday afternoon we strongly suggest a cooler on the porch, greens love cool temps and behave best in them ;)

It is truly a PRIVILEGE to grow food for this community!

Well-Educated Eggs

One of the coolest things about being farmers in a small town is the connections you build in the community. We're not just selling food, we're feeding our friends. We love that. And we also love helping people learn about sustainable agriculture. So, last year when our friend Amy, a teacher in the local schools, asked if our hens could provide eggs to hatch as a class project, we were stoked. We packed up 36 of the best and brightest eggs we could find and shipped 'em off to school.

The class incubated the eggs, watched them hatch, cared for the fuzzy little chicks, and learned a whole lot about chickens in the process. At the end of the year, the well-loved little birds came back to Defiant Field Farm where they became part of our laying flock. So, when Amy asked if we could do the same thing again this spring, it was super cool to pack up eggs from some of the hens that hatched in her classroom last year and send them back for round two.

And since this will be the second generation of Defiant Field hens to attend school, we can probably claim to have the most highly educated chickens in Northern Wisconsin. We might have to add that to our labels.

We totally forgot to take a photo of this year's eggs before we sent them off to school, but these are last year's eggs on their way to the classroom. The best part: some of these eggs, hatched in the classroom last year, returned to Defiant Field Farm and grew up to be the hens that laid this year's hatching eggs.

Sarah carefully inspecting eggs for cracks and dirt before they go to the incubator.

Grocery Shop Online

It's a big day for our little farm. Today is the first day we've put produce on our website to sell. For this first week its lettuce, basil, and kale. That might not sound like such a big deal, but for us its a whole bunch of things coming together: work in the field, work on the website, work in the record keeping and accounting side of things. Selling produce through our website has been a part of the plan for a long time and now we're actually trying it out. Will it be seamless? Probably not. Will it be worth the trouble? That's what we'll find out. Like a ton of the things we do, it's an experiment. Stop back as the season goes on to see how it changes and grows. There's lots more to come. For now though, check it out and lettuce know what you think! HA!