September 26, 2011

      The flea beetles fly up like dust when I walk through the collard
patch. It is late September, and it seems these tiny bugs are trying to
stuff themselves with collard leaves to last them all winter.
       I should be working as voraciously as the bugs are eating. Fall
rains will soon make every farm task harder. Now is the season for so
many jobs: pulling deep-rooted weeds while they are still active,
acquiring manure and spreading it on the fields, removing spent crops
from greenhouses.
       But the pull of the seasons towards dormancy affects farmers along
with their plants...... (read more on the "newsletters" page)


Find us every Friday at the
Springfield Farmers' Market
and every Saturday at the
Lane County Farmers' Market
at 8th and Oak St in Eugene.


The  Dexter Lake Farmers'
Market is in full swing!  Join us
at the Dexter State Recreation
Site, Sundays noon-3pm.


Our CSA program has pick-up
sites at LCC, Springfield
Farmers' Market, and at the
farm.

Here's some new seed varieties we're trying in 2011:

saffron, Olympus, and Camelot red shallots
Goddess melons
Scarlet Ohno spring turnips
Vit mache
Azur star kohlrabi
Fiero radicchio
summer savory (the herb) and marjoram
Rosa de Milano sweet Italian onions
black cherry tomato
Moskovich tomato, an heirloom slicer
purple tomatillos
Rubine (red) brussels sprouts
"graffiti" cauliflower
Veronica romanesco
white satin carrots, to add to Yellowstone and Scarlet Nantes for a rainbow bunch
Contact the farm with any questions, directions to the farm, or for a brochure.
We'd love to have you visit - feel free to arrange a time to tour the farm.
Welcome to Circle h Farm. We're a
small, diversified, certified organic
farm 20 miles outside of Eugene,
Oregon. We sell to a local CSA, at local
farmers' markets, and wholesale to
Organically Grown Company.