Early Morning Farm

New Liverpool location for our Syracuse CSA

Anton Burkett — Wed, 09 May 2012 16:14:37 +0000

Liverpool is now our latest addition to our Syracuse CSA route. Yesterday I met with Todd from Om Boys Juice Co and after a brief conversation it became apparent that his local fresh organic juice bar would be a great fit for a farm share drop-off location. Todd’s business is dedicated to bringing healthy organic choices to the local community and so are we. We’re also excited about potentially supplying Om Boys with vegetables from our farm for their juice, when we have a surplus from our CSA production. Can’t wait to drop off the CSA shares and have a fresh pressed juice every week!

Pick-up times are every Tuesday from 3-6pm starting June 12th.

April CSA Planting Update.

Anton Burkett — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:26:08 +0000

planting kale with the water wheel transplanter

The weather has been a bit strange this spring for sure, one day it’s 80 degrees and the next there’s several inches of wet late April snow. But overall it’s been fairly mild and dry which has let us work our fields early and plant all the season appropriate crops in plentiful amounts. Our first plantings of peas and spinach are up, we planted 70,000 onion sets, transplanted broccoli, kale, collards, parsley, cabbage, and kohlrabi. We covered these with row cover fabric to protect the plants from cold nights. From seed we also have planted two plantings of peas and spinach, carrots, beets, Italian dandelion, mustard greens, turnips, and baby boc choi. Next week we’ll transplant lettuce, chard, more broccoli and cabbage, Napa cabbage, boc choi, Jerusalem artichokes, and fennel. From seed we’ll plant more spinach, and some radishes.

Our perennial crops are a mixed bag this year. The raspberries and rhubarb look amazing, but we are pretty worried about this year’s strawberry crop, the fluctuating temperatures and wet spring and fall of last year seem to have taken a toll. It’s still too early to say for sure, but we may have lost the lovely spring berries for this year. On the plus side we just planted a half acre of strawberries for next year and they look great.

Looking forward to a bountiful CSA share!

New! Student CSA Share Option

Anton Burkett — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 22:46:17 +0000

We have just added an Academic Season CSA Share to our list of options. This student CSA option will come packed in a half bushel box beginning August 23^rd at all of our Tuesday, Syracuse CSA area locations, and August 28^th at all of our Thursday Ithaca CSA area locations. There are 12 weeks of pick-up during the prime of our CSA harvest season that come at a great time to get students and faculty eating the best organic vegetables from our CSA for just $240!

We can also prorate an Ithaca Farmers’ Market CSA share – we need to do this over the phone or at the market to make sure we get the details correct.

Auburn CSA – Hoopes Park Neighborhood Pick-Up

Anton Burkett — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:57:54 +0000

We have a new community supported agriculture pick-up location in Auburn! The new Hoopes Park Neighborhood pick-up will be at a members house on Herman Ave right across from the park club house.

Early Morning Farm share members will be able to pick-up boxes of certified organic vegetables from 2:30 until 7 pm every Thursday afternoon during our growing season. We’re excited to be able to offer another pick-up option for our Auburn CSA customers.

Ithaca Farmers’ Market CSA

Anton Burkett — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 02:55:01 +0000

A great place to sign up for an Ithaca Farmers’ Market CSA share is right at the farmers’ market. The Ithaca Farmers’ Market starts up again on the waterfront this Saturday at Steamboat Landing (at the end of Third St. behind Aldi’s ) and we’ll be there. We’ll be selling a few root crops we have stored through the winter, and we’ll also be available to meet with folks who are interested in our CSA program.

We’ll have everything we need to sign people up for shares for the upcoming season, including a means to accept credit card transactions. Market begins at 9 am and ends at 3 pm, our CSA program doesn’t start until June 10^th at market, but we will be there most Saturdays between now and then.