I woke up this morning and realized it was mid way through July already and I had not given a post in some time. Things are going great here at the farm. Our corn is tasseled up, our giant pumpkin is 2 foot around and we have picked our first tomatoes. Look out for the article this weekend in the Minneapolis Star Tribune featuring Tiny Planet. Rick Nelson stopped by and talked to us about some of our heirloom oddities that we grow here.  The C.S.A. is going strong and for anyone wanting to sing up we are taking a few more shares. The price is prorated for the weeks we have already delivered. We will also be offering a fall share box. If you are interested in taking part just shoot us an email or give a call. Here’s a few pictures of what we’ve been doing.

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Corn in June.

Black eyed Susan and corn.

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Update

Recently we have had several C.S.A. members ask when our boxes will start and although we have had some great weather we are still planning on starting the 2nd Thursday in June. We will contact all members through email to confirm the first delivery date. If you are planting a garden this year and are in need of healthy chemical free veggie or flower starts we start attending the Kingfield Farmers Market this weekend. The market is across from our drop at Anodyne Cafe on 42nd and Nicolette and runs from 8:30 to 1. Also we will be at the annual Cafe Wren Garden and Art sale for four days over Memorial day weekend in Luck, WI. If you have not been out to this event it is really something special.

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Things are moving right along here at Tiny Planet with just under two acres already planted! Onions, scallions, potatoes and artichokes have all joined in with our other crops already in the field. Also to all of you in the St. Croix Falls area, our farmers market in the new library parking lot starts Saturday at 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. We will be there selling many bedding plants, flower baskets and vegetable starts.  If you are in the area definitely stop by and support the market! Here are few pictures to give you a visual of what is happening.

First finds of spring

First finds of spring

Freshly planted crops

Freshly planted crops

Friend Dwayne's tractor after plowing our fields

Friend Dwayne's tractor after plowing our fields

Andrea and Biscuit

Andrea and Biscuit

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Spring!!!

After a long hard struggle we have finally gotten good water here at the farm. Also the first crops have been planted in the ground. Though our tractor is in the shop until next week we got the walk behind tiller out and worked and worked until we had spinach, peas, radish, beets and carrots in the ground. A good two weeks early this year weather permitting we will have crop by the start of the St. Croix Falls Farmers market May 1st. Don’t worry folks the freshest  and best tasting produce you’ve ever had is on the way!

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Farm Update

The season is coming head on. Here at Tiny Planet we have been battling with our well for the past month, but hopefully today victory will be ours! Despite this unfortunate situation we have been pressing on. The greenhouse is looking great with onions, scallions, herbs, broccoli, cauliflower, tomatoes, pansies and petunias all thriving!  We will be at the Eastside Co-op April 10 and the Seward Co-op April 24th if you are  interested in meeting us to learn more about the C.S.A. or just to chat. Also we have confirmed now that Eastside Food Co-op will be a drop site for those of you in NE Mineapolis. Check back soon for pictures of all the wonderful plants coming to life with spring!

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2010 will mark our 1st year making C.S.A. shares available from Tiny Planet.  Please check our C.S.A. information page for more details about the boxes and delivery sites.  You can download the 2010 Membership Application here. We will be offering 100 C.S.A. shares this year, to secure your place with our farm, please send in the Membership Application along with your payment made to Tiny Planet Produce.   If you have any questions or for more information, call 715.483.9895 or email us at andrea@tinyplanetproduce.com or ben@tinyplanetproduce.com.  We are looking forward to new things and a great year!

GREENHOUSE PROGRESS

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Our neighbor & good friend Nick, from Illinois, helped us to set the ground posts to make the greenhouse square.  We opened the boxes and started to assemble the mass of metal in October. We are still working on it…

In November, Our fellow farmers from Foxtail Farm came over at we raised the Hoops:

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We are planning a large flower sale on the farm this spring, so the plastic will have to be on by February!

Good Bye 2009

Well it’s finally over after a beautiful November as it seems inevitable that snow and cold temperatures are on the way. We had a great time at the Kingfield Holiday market and surprised ourselves with all the produce still thriving in the mild temperatures. We are almost done building our greenhouse at our new farm here in St. Croix Falls and seed catalogs for the 2010 season are coming in. With this said we are excited about the up and coming year. We will be joined by our good friend come March to help run the farm. Plan on seeing big things with Tiny Planet as our operation grows! C.S.A. information is up on the site now and if you are interested in getting a spot with us please feel free to contact us. Just a little reminder of what the 2009 season did for us.

Hello all and thanks to everyone who has been coming out to support us and other local growers at the North East Farmers Market and Kingfield Farmers Market. Despite the early drought and the recent nasty storms that have popped up we have been able to provide a bounty of produce. To those of you who are interested in our C.S.A. we are still working on getting the information together, but we are making progress and should have that together soon. If you have specific questions feel free to shoot us an email and we will get back to you as soon as possible. We are starting to feel more at home on the new farm and our green house will start being built soon. We also purchased a walk in cooler that we brought back to the light after starting it’s life inside a McDonalds. We hope everyone has had a good summer and we will continue to bring great produce to market through October.

Andre and Benjamin

New Tractor

Sorry there have been no posts in a while I’ve been to tired to type, but the good news is our flower baskets and veggie starts are looking great and we have potatoes, onions, scallions, herbs, broccoli, kohlrabi, cabbage, kale, swiss chard, peas, lettuce, beets, turnips all in ground getting ready for our farmers markets that start at the end of this month. Some of our flowers and herbs are now available at the River Market in Stillwater, Minnesota all Certified Naturally Grown and ready to go. Also don’t forget that we will be selling all of our goodies at Cafe Wren’s annual plant sale May 22-25 and at the River Market May 30. In even bigger news Tiny Planet Produce will be moving at the end of this season onto a more permanent location in Deer Lake, Wisconsin onto 20 acres of prime farm ground. We have started collecting some new equipment and recently purchased a Holland two row transplanter. I don’t expect everyone to be as excited about this as me, but if you are here is a picture!

Holland Two Row Transplanter

Holland Two Row Transplanter

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