Catalpa Ridge News
Updates from Catalpa Ridge Farm
Monday, May 04, 2020
Getting Ready for plant sales by Mid-May - Delivery & Pickup Options available
Sunday, July 15, 2018
Catalpa Ridge News - July 16, 2018
Sunday, July 01, 2018
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Sunday, June 24, 2018
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Sunday, October 29, 2017
Catalpa Ridge News–October 30, 2017
Last Delivery of the Season
It was dry during the week, except for Sunday and we did nave seasonable temperatures. We haven’t had a frost yet at the farm, though some have occurred locally in the surrounding area. It appears from the weather forecast that we will receive a heavy frost on Wednesday morning. This usually happens after a heavy rain this time of year. Luckily the frost will be arriving after the end of the seasonal deliveries.
The beds that have been harvested will all be brush-hogged and then prepare them for next season. It is a bit late to plant a cover crop now, though we probably have enough mulching on top to cover the beds before winter.
The crew planting garlic during the week and we are ready to plant more during the first weekend of November. They also finished winterizing the heated greenhouse. It is now totally covered with a new door and plastic.
Our Annual Wooly Bear Caterpillar Report. According to folklore, the wooly bear can predict how severe the winter will be. Here is an excerpt from https://www.weather.gov/arx/woollybear
- According to folklore, the amount of black on the woolly bear in autumn varies proportionately with the severity of the coming winter in the locality where the caterpillar is found. The longer the woolly bear's black bands, the longer, colder, snowier, and more severe the winter will be. Similarly, the wider the middle brown band is associated with a milder upcoming winter. The position of the longest dark bands supposedly indicates which part of winter will be coldest or hardest. If the head end of the caterpillar is dark, the beginning of winter will be severe. If the tail end is dark, the end of winter will be cold. In addition, the woolly bear caterpillar has 13 segments to its body, which traditional forecasters say correspond to the 13 weeks of winter.
At the farm, we have equal stripes so we guess it is a toss up as to what kind of winter it will be.
The is the last delivery of the season. Thank you for supporting our farm. We look forward to seeing you again in the spring!
Sunday, October 22, 2017
Catalpa Ridge News–October 22, 2017
Garlic Planting
The trees are finally showing signs of color. Better late than never! About 30% of the trees around our area dropped their leaves before even turning color. You can see on the photo of the crew planting garlic on Sunday, the ash trees have no leaves on them. Usually this time of year they would be bright scarlet in color.
We had a light frost on Tuesday morning last week and Farmer Diane just down the road was hit hard and lost a lot of her crops. This has happened before as our higher altitude protected us during this frost. The cold air flows down the mountain and the warmer air moves up the mountain and that leads to us being less impacted during the early frosts. It is only a matter of time before a season ending frost comes.
The crew planted garlic on Sunday with a perfect day to do so. Temperatures were in the 70’s and hardly a cloud in the sky. They planted over 2000 cloves of German White and Italian Purple varieties. The remaining rows will be planted over the next week or two and we hope to get 8,000-10,000 cloves planted.
Last delivery of the season will be next week.