Farmer John Writes: Two Home Farms
Harvest Week 12, September 19th – 24th, 2022 King Charles King Charles was discussed widely recently due to, amongst many other things, his upset about a leaky pen with which he attempted to sign...
View ArticleFarmer John Writes: See You Saturday
Harvest Week 13, September 26th – October 1st, 2022 Fall Field Day for Shareholders on Saturday, October 1st We will be hosting our Fall Field Day for shareholders on Saturday, October 1st. We suggest...
View ArticleFarmer John Writes: Field Day Delight
Harvest Week 14, October 3rd – 8th, 2022 Our Field Day this past Saturday was a glorious event. Many shareholders visited the farm for the first time and glowed with enthusiasm upon taking part in the...
View ArticleFarmer John Writes: To Rain or Not to Rain?
Harvest Week 15, October 10th – 15th, 2022 Fall Farming I was pressed into service last Saturday morning. Our crew was stretched thin this past week, with frost forecasts plus occasional threats of...
View ArticleFarmer John Writes: Fall Crop Update
Harvest Week 16, October 17th – 22nd, 2022 When Approximate Meets Exact I promised turnips for this upcoming week, but there are none; I miscalculated. Part of the challenge is that I do crop...
View ArticleFarmer John Writes: How Does Anything Happen?
Harvest Week 17, October 24th – 29th, 2022 We’ve had a few warm days recently. Maybe the weather will get the broccoli to form heads. Maybe not. We are fortunate to be blessed by an abundance of many...
View ArticleFarmer John Writes: Freezing in the Heat of Summer
Harvest Week 18, October 31st – November 5th, 2022 If You Customized Your Share with Spinach this Week Because it’s time consuming for our crew to remove all the weeds from your spinach, you might get...
View ArticleFarmer John Writes: Its Own Spiritual Force
Harvest Week 19, November 7th – 12th, 2022 For Some of You, This is Your Last Delivery of the Season If you receive a bi-weekly share on the odd weeks (that’s this week, Week 19) and you don’t have an...
View ArticleFarmer John Writes: Life Wants to Happen
Harvest Week 20, November 14th – 19th, 2022 Here we are, the last week of the main season. Year after year, the season is always a new adventure at Angelic Organics, and I hope it is also a culinary...
View ArticleFarmer John Writes: Thank You to All
Extended Season Week 1, November 21st – 26th, 2022 Welcome to the Extended Season This week is the first week of our two-week extended season. Normally, our extended season is four weeks long, but this...
View ArticleFarmer John Writes: The Middle of Somewhere
Extended Season Week 2, November 28th – December 3rd, 2022 Welcome to the Last Delivery Week of the 2022 Season A reminder to our extended season shareholders: since we condensed our extended season...
View ArticleFarmer John Writes: A Holiday Gift for a Local Food Bank
The holiday season can make us aware of all of our blessings, and it can especially remind us of those who are in need. An Opportunity to Help a Local Food Bank and the Farm You can now purchase a...
View ArticleFarmer John Writes: Farmer John Makes an Offer
Update on our Food Bank Holiday Gift Initiative Our shareholders and other friends of the farm have gifted 400 boxes of Angelic Organics potatoes and carnival squash to the food-insecure in Chicagoland...
View ArticleFarmer John Writes: We Did It! Tons of It!
A Fabulous Achievement 255 shareholders and other friends of the farm, along with a 100-box donation from Farmer John, fulfilled our campaign of gifting 700 boxes of organic squash and potatoes to the...
View ArticleFarmer John Writes: Gift an Angelic Organics CSA Share
The holidays are here, and with that in mind we have a new feature for shareholders and other friends of the farm looking to gift an Angelic Organics CSA share – gift certificates! Anyone can purchase...
View ArticleFarmer John Writes: A Day of Heart
Harvest Week 15, Deliveries of September 26th – 30th, 2023 I normally wouldn’t share a timeline such as below in Farm News. It’s a little like what a person might write to their relatives on the back a...
View ArticleFarmer John Writes: I Learned it in Spain
Harvest Week 16, Deliveries of October 3rd – 7th, 2023 The Cover Crops and the Weather The fall peas are growing nicely in this warm weather after a few rains. They are adding to the fertility and soil...
View ArticleFarmer John Writes: Is it a Trade? A Craft? An Art?
Harvest Week 17, Deliveries of October 10th – 14th, 2023 The Office Nathan, Haidy, and I reduced the backlog of customer service emails from over 300 to under 100. This challenge was suited for my...
View ArticleFarmer John Writes: The Heavens Beckon and The Earth Dictates
Harvest Week 18, Deliveries of October 17th – 21st, 2023 The Crops Lots of crops still to put in your boxes—bounty galore. Brussels sprouts—they got nipped by frost, not as deep a frost as I would have...
View ArticleFarmer John Writes: What is There?
Harvest Week 19, Deliveries of October 24th – 28th, 2023 For Some of You, This is Your Last Delivery of the Season If you receive a bi-weekly share on the odd weeks (that’s this week, Week 19) and you...
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