12–15 lb · 5–10 items
Custom ½ Bushel
$35
Pick five to ten things you actually eat. We fill a balanced ½ bushel from this week's harvest — about 12–15 lb — and have it ready at the farmstand. No itemized pricing. $35 is the box.
Build yours
Week of August 24 · Morning pick posted
Choose your box.
Know your soil.
Custom ½ bushels from a family-run regenerative farm — not a $700 CSA share. Pick five to ten things you actually eat. We pack 12–15 lb and have it ready at the stand.
Live inventory
On the board this week
Paste tomatoes are in: romas, cherries, Sungold, and Cauralina. Beefsteak is just coming in — we were starting to take it personally. Slicing cukes are limited. Picklers are gone for the year. We underestimated Wisconsinites' love for pickles, which is a little like underestimating snow. Yukon Golds are in. Still quite a few with fresh dirt still on them — perfect for short-term storage, not a winter cellar potato. Beans look good. Peppers of every heat are heavy, plus bells and Italian fryers. Squash and melons are gone for the year. We looked. They are not hiding. Basil is limited, 2 oz bunches. Spring carrots are still in the field. Fall carrots wait until after the first frost, which is when they get actually sweet. Sweet corn is still in the field; we will post it when a thumbnail pops milk, not before. No salsa box: cilantro has a plan, and it does not include this week.
- Plenty
Roma tomatoes
- Plenty
Cherry tomatoes
- Plenty
Sungold cherries
- Plenty
Cauralina tomatoes
- Limited
Beefsteak tomatoes
- Limited
Slicing cucumbers
- Plenty
Green bush beans (Dulcina)
- Plenty
Wax bush beans
- Plenty
Yukon Gold potatoes
- Limited
Spring carrots
- Limited
Storage onions
- Limited
White onions
- Plenty
Bell peppers
- Plenty
Lunchbox sweet peppers
- Plenty
Italian frying peppers
- Plenty
Sweet cherry peppers
- Plenty
Banana peppers
- Plenty
Peperoncini
- Plenty
Jalapeño peppers
- Plenty
Cayenne peppers
- Plenty
Habanero peppers
- Limited
Basil
- Add-on
Chicken eggs, unwashed
- Add-on
Quail eggs, unwashed
- Add-on
Raw honey
- Add-on
Goat milk soap
Gone: Pickling cucumbers, Squash & melons, Red onions.
Still to come: Fall cilantro, Cherry Belle radish, Giant radish, Fall carrots, Sweet corn, Fall beets, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Spinach, Kale, Buttercrunch lettuce.
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Read the harvest
The list is this morning’s pick, not a catalog. Plenty, limited, or gone — updated after we come in from the rows.
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Pick a box, or pick the list
Farmers Friend is $25 and we choose. Custom is $35 for five to ten things you pick. Set boxes are packed to a crop — tomatoes by type, or peppers sweet, hot, or both.
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Pickup at the stand
Open daily 8am–dusk. Pay Venmo, cash, or card when you collect. We do not ship. Delivery is still a maybe — for now, pickup at the stand.
Not a CSA
Two ways to eat with the farm
About 15 lb · we choose
Farmers Friend
$25
A mixed box of whatever is at peak this morning. Right now that means tomatoes, beans, potatoes, slicing cukes, and peppers — no squash. You do not pick the list. Fastest way to eat with the farm.
Reserve a Friend box
From the bean row
The weedy bean bed outyielded the clean one. Four to one.
Same Dulcina beans, same 75-foot row. Bare soil: three bushels, and they quit. Mowed, residue left, folded in: twelve bushels, plants still setting. Four times the food. That is the argument.
Read the field noteField notes
What a row taught us
The harvest board is this week's list. Notes go up when we learned something worth passing on — a practice that worked, or one that didn't.
Practice
Why we read Brix
A refractometer is not a personality. It is a way to know if a plant is making sugar — and if the dirt is getting better, or just staying busy.
Practice
The weedy bean bed outyielded the clean one
Same Dulcina, same 75 feet. Bare soil: three bushels. Residue in: twelve — four times the harvest, and the plants are still working.
Practice
The white rice on the hornworms is a wasp. Leave it.
Those grains are cocoons, not eggs. The wasp is already on payroll. Leave that one. Pick the ones without rice.
The farm
Not a CSA. On purpose.
Around here a half share is six or seven hundred before the first tomato. A $35 box is food you will actually eat, when you can cook it.