Next Barn Over Farm

news from the farm… hello friends! i hope you’re finding ways to beat the heat and enjoy it too! here at the farm we’re starting our days extra early to catch more of the cooler daytime hours, and watching the mid-summer crops ripen up under our eyes with the high temperatures. our peppers, eggplants, and…

news from the farm… hello friends! we were so grateful for the rain yesterday, as our third succession of carrots are just popping and the moist earth will help them emerge. phew! imagine trying to push up a delicate shoot through a sun-baked crust of soil — not easy! this week we’ll be transplanting our…

hello friends!  this week our mix and match bag begins (woohoo).  that means that you can fill your bag up to the specified line (Annie will write the amounts each week for each size share on the board in the share room) with any combination of the mix and match veggies you like.  your share,…

news from the farm hello friends! crops in the field are looking great. among many other tasks, this past week we planted over 24,000 sweet potato slips (that’s what the baby plants are called), which will ultimately grow into between 18-24 tons of beautiful sweet potatoes. yes. 18-24 tons!! we also started trellising the tomatoes,…

so many berries! there is an abundance of ripe strawberries on the plants in the u-pick field right now! please come pick them while they’re big, sweet and juicy. we’re increasing the amounts for you to pick, so that these gorgeous berries go into your baskets and mouths and don’t pass by. look at the…

welcome to our ninth season! we are so happy to welcome you to the start of our ninth season harvest at Next Barn Over Farm. as we head into our ninth season farming here on this beautiful land in Hadley, we are increasingly grateful to be doing this work. thank you, dear friends, for joining…

strawberries are ripe! we’ve been waiting all year for it to come around again, and it has finally happened. the first week of strawberry season is upon us! you’re invited to come pick your share of berries this week, whenever is convenient for you. (yum, yay). u-pick fields are open during daylight hours, 7 days…

our first CSA share pick-up is nearly here! and we are so excited.  the farm officially opens for the season on Monday, June 4th! the first pick-up days will be as follows: June 4th for Monday pick-up members June 6th for Wednesday pick-up members June 9th for Saturday pick-up members as you might remember, you…

spring is springing! spring has finally arrived in western mass, and all the tenacious green popping up makes it undeniable. we’ve been busy at the farm, and the evidence is coming up all around us.  the last few weeks have had us planting baby cabbages, kale, collards, celeriac, herbs and lettuce; seeding carrots, beets, cilantro…

Dear Sharemembers, Greetings from the wintry days of early February! We hope this finds you all well and warm and feeling nourished by this winter season. Here at the farm we spent the darker, shorter days of December reflecting on the past season and visioning the one ahead. We drafted our crop plan and edited…