Monthly Archives: January 2016

Certified Organic Who?

Meet Farm Apprentice Jess: Hey what’s up? I’m Jess. Long story, short. Graduated high school up in CT and went straight to college. Got my bachelors in Exercise Science and realized that I wasn’t feeling it anymore. Took two years … Continue reading →

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The Cover Up

Tuesday, the Sunday of the week at Sweetwater, the farmers and the Associate Director, Yvette, got called in to quickly cover up some veggies.  Even though we didn’t have a “hard freeze” some crops are not tolerant of colder temperatures … Continue reading →

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Do you know her?

Who’s Your Farmer? Farmer Jenise Greetings Farmily! I am so excited to be here at Sweetwater. It is my pleasure to serve such a wonderful community of people nestled smack dab in the middle of Town N Country. I have … Continue reading →

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Let’s Call it a Party

We’ve got short rads, pink rads, long rads, white rads, and black rads.  Even watermelon rads.  Its a radish party over here and they are so good to us. Radishes are a good source of of vitamin C, Potassium, Folate, … Continue reading →

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Torrid Tropics in Wintertime

  Yes, you are probably over talking about the 80 degree weather in December. But in agriculture we gotta talk about it. Even some of our heat tolerant winter crops are succumbing to bolting. We have more successions of crops … Continue reading →

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