From Laughing Loon Farm (215 items)
- Exciting delivery today! We are partnering with the Minneapolis Public Schools to pro…
- Free winter squash and pumpkins for fall decoration or eating! Corner of Gates ave an…
- And French Breakfasts too!
- Speaking of radishes… Yum!
- Elyse and her excellent radish harvesting technique.
- Fantastic turnout, fantastic event. Xoxo
- Some of my new fall crew members led by Daniel. (I’ve been under the weather so i am …
- Makin’ progress.
- Big harvest day!
- This is what real Farm to Fork commitment looks like! Thank you Bon Appetit at St. Ol…
- Summer ain’t over yet! Look at this beautiful Striped German heirloom I harvested yes…
- Beets are finally here!
- Here comes the spring mix! Or should I call it fall mix now?
- Bean pickin’ crew!
- Veggie sampler!
- Thank you Ian, Louis and Lindsey for helping us harvest cukes and tomatoes this morni…
- Staff from the wonderful Common Roots Cafe visited the farm today. They helped us pic…
- Break time means dancing lessons with Rubydog.
- Progress on the hoophouse!
- We <3 partnering with Bon Appetit at St. Olaf College! Look, they even put this cu…
- CARMENS! so excited we didn’t lose them all in the flood!
- Tried out the SEEDS Farm basket weeder on the Farmall A today. One word: wow.
- This sums up August at Laughing Loon Farm.
- Toscano and Lacinato kale is back!
- Anyone else <3 kale?
- Deluxe, eh?
- Speckled Roman tomato. (didn’t even make it into the harvest bin, i gobbled it!)
- Heirloom tomaters, comin’ in hot!
- Red and black cherry tomatoes as well as sungolds.
- Best caprese I’ve ever had! Thanks Chef Jeff!
- Rubydogs need to eat their veggies too!
- Nasturtiums! They attract beneficial insects to our curcurbit field, deter cuke beetl…
- Lots o’ summer squash, slicing and pickling cukes, and zucchini out there this mornin…
- The menu from last night… The kielbasa and lardo tied for first place in the runnin…
- The second packshed is almost done! We’ll use this for sorting and storing tomatoes.
- The slicing cukes are all washed up and ready to go.
- Favorita cherry tomatoes!
- Harvesting 100 of these beauties tomorrow morning for stuffed squash blossom appetize…
- Thanks for helping out with the harvest on Sunday, Nick and Dad! We picked hundreds o…
- Laughing Loon sungolds in a delicious appetizer at SEEDS Farm manager Monica’s weddin…
- tasty treats!
- sunflowers!
- Heirloom Rosa Bianca eggplant!
- Speckled romans, coming soon…. To your MOUTH!
- Big eggplant harvest this morning!
- The sungolds are coming!
- It feels SO good to start harvesting again! Globe eggplant, Epic variety
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- another example: spined soldier bug feasting on a young colorado potato beetle!
- yet another reason not to use pesticides: here’s a beneficial insect (wasp, methinks)…
- Our volunteers are the best!
- Big thanks to all of our hardworking volunteers! We planted all the peppers, eggplant…
- Starting to prep beds for replanting!
- Realized that the hail shredded our driptape, so we have to throw away over 4 MILES o…
- Thank you volunteers!
- Let the tomato-coddling begin!
- Thanks for your hard work today and yesterday, volunteers! We finished all the fieldw…
- Ug, poor tomatoes.
- Sandbar.
- This acre was planted with beans and beets and chard.
- The Farmall and JD are almost underwater.
- What used to be a half acre of radishes, greens, spinach and herbs.
- About 1/3 of my farm was washed away and SEEDS Farm is under water after we got 8 in …
- Red sails lettuce, harvested fresh this morning.
- Sunflower shoots.
- More micros.
- Micros.
- Beautiful blooms on the SEEDS Farm apple trees.
- SEEDS Farm at the riverwalk market in Northfield!
- Mmmm, one of our 5# cases of Winterbor kale.
- Chef Scott at the MN Valley Country Club with some LLF romaine and spring mix.
- Next succession of cukes, zukes and summer squash popping right up!
- Big shout out to HECUA students Mike and AJ for working so hard and asking great ques…
- Happy hour planting sesh at Laughing Loon Farm. big thanks to HECUA students Mike and…
- And red romaine!
- And spring mix…
- And winterbor kale…
- Harvesting spinach bright and early tomorrow!
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- Some beautiful (and tasty!) parris island Cos lettuce
- It’s been beautiful this week!
- Hand squishing potato beetles since we don’t use gross pesticides. Big thanks to my f…
- Saving our eggplant from the colorado potato beetles. We squished dozens before cover…
- Farm doggies taking a break!
- Spinach
- Red cherriette radishes
- Romaine lettuce
- Spring mix
- French breakfast radishes
- Spring mix
- Progress!
- Daniel stirring fish emulsion into the tanks of the water wheel transplanter.
- Ahhh, Sunday evenings.
- Fun time at the farm! The kiddos painted rocks for the SEEDS Farm children’s garden.
- This kid at the open house was the BEST.
- Nom Nom Nom
- Or these radishes?
- You wouldn’t want to miss out on this fresh kale, spring mix and arugula salad, now w…
- Big huge work day at the farm is underway. The broccoli has been weeded and now we’re…
- My dad and Daniel made major progress on the cooler today. (plus my dad made an aweso…
- I’ve got the best mentees! They’re so hardcore.
- Elizabeth, the founder of Plovgh.com, visited today. Thanks for helping me weed the s…
- Our terrific Carleton mentees, Megan and Zoe, transplanting broccoli.
- Radish love.
- Met with farmers, distributors and processors at the Mpls Public Schools Culinary Cen…
- Peas!
- Look what Ruby sniffed out!
- De Cicco broccoli, an Italian heirloom that was introduced to the US in 1890.
- Incorporating our cover crop of oats to prepare for planting.
- Big thanks to Devon for helping out with transplanting yesterday!
- It was a very muddy morning transplanting the leaf lettuce!
- Time to shine little kale!
- …and we put it right to work! Transplanted all 4 kinds of kale this afternoon.
- The kubota arrived today…
- Chicken tractor at Open Hands Farm. Beautiful!
- Baby lettuce is coming along nicely too.
- our first succession planting of spinach is looking good!
- Best part of my day: hearing bob strachan gently call out to his grassfed cattle &quo…
- Cow manure spread on the fields today!
- Getting the manure spreader ready to spread compost on the brassica field.
- Weeding the arugula with Daniel and our two wonderful Carleton mentees, Zoe and Megan…
- Ruby Rae Burtness-Nguyen, guardian of the northern field.
- Pretty peas.
- …and the walk in cooler is almost up too!
- Packshed is up!
- Scott was born to charm (and be on tv, as it turns out!)!
- Look at the crowd!
- Amazing spread from the event last night… Lots of bacon, natch.
- Looking good plants!
- The LLF team got a lot done today! Even though I’m never in the pictures, I swear I w…
- The kubota that will pull the transplanter isn’t here yet, so we planted this bed of …
- Hey new friends!
- Excited to be a part of this Food Forum at Carleton College tonight!
- The sugar snap peas are coming up!
- The SEEDS Farm beehives and beginning beekeeper Adam Severson. So happy you’re here, …
- Intern Daniel and I hand planted some golden Helios radishes today.
- Big thanks to our two mentees from Carleton College, Megan and Zoe, for helping us tu…
- Greenhouse at night.
- Spinach!
- Heirloom eggplant, Rosa Bianca.
- SUNGOLDS! I can’t wait…
- Water wheel transplanter is here!
- Radishes popping up in the north field. Woo hoo!
- Mmmm, sage. Welcome, wee plants!
- Progress in the greenhouse!
- Future food! (paris island cos lettuce to be exact!)
- hand broadcasted a quick cover crop of oats over almost 3 acres today. Moral of the s…
- Welcome Daniel! Daniel is the first of 3 LLF interns. He’s standing in front of the g…
- Ruby and I walked the farm at dusk last night. Here come the weeds!
- Nice to see you too, green magic broccoli!
- Oh hai winterbor kale!
- Hung out with our soil consultant, Steve Lazarski of Midwest Bio Ag, today.
- Field measurement I made using the Planimeter app on my smartphone. Not sure how acc…
- Proud new Just Food Co-op owner!
- This awesome team helped me fill almost 300 trays with potting soil. Thanks for your …
- Beautiful day for an ole work party! We’re going to be filling trays with Cowsmo pott…
- Might not look like much, but this is the whole season of my whole farm in spreadshee…
- 4 acres of seed… I can’t decide if it’s a ton or a tiny amount, considering what it…
- So much activity on the farm!
- Driving the Farmall A for the first time! That look on my face is 50% elation/50% ter…
- Greenhouse tables taking shape.
- Monica from SEEDS Farm securing the landscape fabric in the greenhouse.
- First batch of seeds has arrived! Woo hoo!
- More loon art!
- Loon art! Collecting my favorites for logo inspiration.
- First sunset at the farm.
- Greenhouse table prototype designed by SEEDS Farm. Slick, eh?
- Bringing a whole minivan full of tposts and harvest bins down to the farm.
- Can you tell what was farmed last year?
- Looking south.
- The view looking northeast.
- Direct seeded crops and brassicas will go in here this season.
- Ah, potential!
- Ruby loves the greenhouse!
- Future home of LLF!
- Thanks again team!
- Broccoli raab
- Greens and Toscano Kale
- Basil galore!
- Purple basil
- Sun gold tomatoes
- Baby beets
- Winterbor Kale
- Rainbow Swiss Chard
- Sage
- Orient Express Eggplant
- Baby arugula
- Mixed cherry tomatoes
- Slicing tomatoes
- Italian eggplant
- Roasting peppers, radishes, eggplant, cherry tomatoes
- Summer squash, zucchini
- Green beans
- Italian eggplant
- Golden baby beets
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