<![CDATA[Tranquil Ridge Farm]]>http://www.tranquilridgefarm.comen-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rssCopyright 2010Tranquil Ridge Farm<![CDATA[Market page]]>You'll find us at the Lafayette Farmer's Market starting May 2 and going through the end of Oct. from 7am-12:30m every Saturday.  The market is located downtown Lafayette and always has an excellent supply of farm fresh meats, breads, seasonal produce, and local crafts. 

We will also be in West Lafayette on Wednesdays at the Sagamore West Farmer's Market from 3pm-6:30pm.  This market is located off of Salisbury Street.

]]>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:20:05 -0600<![CDATA[Come join us for our 2010 CSA call out!]]>Happy new year!!

I hope everyone had a great holiday season.  This one was extra special for us. It really has been amazing to share our holidays with Jensen.  He is doing great; growing and changing every day and already 3 months old! 
   
It us hard to believe that we will be starting up the greenhouse in just four weeks.  Looking outside on days like today, summer seems a long way off, but it will certainly be here soon.  We are working hard on our planting schedule. 
    
We are excited for this coming season, where all of our energy can be placed on our crops. The house is almost complete, with just the outside to finish.  Some of our buildings are getting rearranged to make our work a little smoother.  We will be expanding our operation a little more this year by leasing another 15 acre parcel on the farm, which now puts us around 26 acres of land to work with. This will allow more room for healthy rotations of cover crops and fallow ground for the future.
    
Thanks to all who have rejoined our CSA program for this year.  We are already off to a great start with membership signups.  Our CSA program is perhaps our most exciting oppurtunity for growth. Last year was the first year, and we feel like we learned a lot from that experience, which is why we decided finally to have a call-out meeting.  The membership program will have some changes for this coming year; same concept, but with a new approach. 
We are going to give you a choice on what is in your share for the week.  At the pick up location we will set up similar to our market booth, with each item having a value of either 1/2 unit or 1 full unit. Full share members will have 9 units per week to spend and half share members will have 5. 

This new process should help us and you in a few ways.  We don't have to decide exactly what each one of you would like to eat each week, nor spend a large amout of time and labor packaging the veggies. This means if you want to can green beens or tomatoes one week then you can load up on green beens or tomatoes and nothing else. You can chose to spread it out any way you like. Each week we will have a given selection to chose from, and a suggestion as to how you might like to use them.  We are excited about this new process and welcome your feedback. 
     
We are pleased to annouce that we will host an informal meeting to discuss our program and answer any questions you may have. Membership options for this coming season are set up online, if you would like to pay with credit card.We will sign you up manually at the meeting if you prefer payment by check.We have reserved the Classroom in the basement of the Crawfordsville Public Lirary for Jan. 23 at 1:00 p.m.We look forward to seeing you all there and hope that you will pass this information along to anyone you think may be interested. 

Thanks
Nate, Emily and Jensen

Tranquil Ridge Farm
www.tranquilridgefarm.com
   
 ]]>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:32:27 -0600<![CDATA[New Product Graph: Our selections]]>Click here to view the graph.]]>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:38:22 -0600<![CDATA[Photo(s) added: , Another New Photo, Another New Photo]]> , , ]]>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:50:46 -0600<![CDATA[Photo(s) added: Jensen Michael Parks]]> ]]>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:03:08 -0500<![CDATA[West Lafayette Market]]>We are happy to announce that we're going to be attending the West Lafayette farmers market on Wednesday afternoons at Cumberland Park from 3-6:30.  For the time being, we will no longer be vending at the Purdue market on Thursday afternoons. 

Another round of heavy rain and wind hit the farm on Saturday afternoon!  3 inches of rain fell in about two hours!  Much to our dismay, the sweet corn was blown over by the brunt of the storm.  Hopefully it will revive itself and be ready for harvest in about 2 more weeks.  Our 250 tomato plants partially damaged by the collapse of our 100ft greenhouse in the last storm are still alive and producing!  We are thankful for that.  Everything else is in full swing! 

We do have chickens available for sale at both markets or for pickup at the farm.  They are available frozen in whole, whole pre-cut, boneless skinless breasts, thighs, drumsticks, wings, backs/necks, gizzards, hearts, and livers.
Pricing is as follows (per pound):

Whole:                                  $3.75
Whole pre-cut:                        $4.00
Boneless, skinless breasts:        $8.25
Thighs:                                 $5.25
Drumsticks:                           $5.25
Wings:                                  $3.75
Backs/Necks:                         $2.00
Gizzards:                               $2.00
Hearts:                                 $2.00
Livers:                                  $2.00

Thanks for all the support.
Have a great week!
Nate and Emily

]]>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:36:25 -0500<![CDATA[Friday night disaster]]>

Wow,
That's about all we could say when we got home from market saturday afternoon. We knew the storm was pretty bad friday night, but never thought is was this intense, we made through all the spring storms with no issues. Friday night we lost completely the 20'x100' greenhouse and the 28'x 50'  has been badly damaged.

The larger house was full of tomatoes and peppers that should be ready within the next week or two. The smaller house was just replanted last week, so not much produce damage there.  I think the tomatoes will make it for a while outside, but the close spacing of the greenhouse will not be ideal for the element outdoors.

Outdoors we had lots of wind damaged plants, time will tell how well things recover. Broccoli, sweet corn and head lettuce seem to be the worst off, we had 500' of pole bean trellising wiped out, but salvageable I beleive.

It's amazing, just when you think youv'e got things under control Mother nature reminds you who's in charge. The upside is no one was around the farm to be injured and all things are replaceable. Still hard to see all that hard work, time, energy and money gone in less than 5 minutes.
]]>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:05:07 -0500<![CDATA[Photo(s) added: , Another New Photo, Another New Photo, Another New Photo, Another New Photo]]> , , , , ]]>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 13:17:42 -0500<![CDATA[Busy Bees]]>We may have been a little busy the last month or so, hence the absence of our updates!  There is little chance to rest this time of year! 

Reinforcements are coming this Tuesday...our friend from Honduras will be here to help us around the farm and to finish remodeling the house. 

Farmers market is thriving!  We appreciate and love to see customers return week after week, which makes all the hard work worthwhile.  Sharing recipes is one of Emily's favorite things, and Nate loves to "talk vegetables"!

Expect to see a variety of veggies this week at the market: summer squash, cucumbers, zucchini, broccoli, kale, lettuce mix, swiss chard, collards, peas, fresh herbs, and possibly beans.  There are only a few cut-up whole and whole chickens available this week.  The next group of chickens are due to be processed around the first of July.  We'll have breasts, thighs, and legs available at that time. 

Thanks again for all your support!

 

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