Winter

The big freeze hit our gardens after Thansgiving.    Now is a time of renewal.    We are incorporating the organic matter produced on farm into selec cells of the garden.    Depending on what is needed to prepare the individual cell, we are either:

• tilling in compost produced this summer
• deep digging and burying leaves, worms and stalks, stover, straw or uncomposted field waste using the French trench method
• tilling in the crop freeze-killed to reincorporate the vegetative matter and nutrients.

We are also in process of tilling, when the soil is not frozen, to produce beds that will allow us to triple our production in 2011.  

Our goal is to increase production of salad greens (our specialty) and to produce commercial quantities of radishes, carrots, onions, garlic sweet potatos, herbs, peppers, squash and sweet corn.

Our customers can purchase our jams, apple butter, dried herbs and syrups at Tomato-Tomato.    The store is located at West Center Road in Omaha.

Our delivery service to select customers will resume in the Spring, when the first plantings of radishes, spinach and salad greens are harvestable.     Our jams, syrups, breads and apple butter are available on-farm, as well.    Please call ahead, to assure we are present and to check on the items available.

Thanks for your patronage and we hope to see you at Farmer's Markets in Harlan, Exira and Atlantic this coming Spring.    As always, if it is not fresh, we won't sell it.    If it is not prime, we won't sell it.     If it is not organically produced, it is not fromNishnabotna Naturals.