Shilofarm

Welcome!

February is wrapping up this coming week – the winter CSA season is now closed for members, the next big thing will be Green Season, which looks very promising. Lots of nice greens coming – some holdover, some new growth, some new plants. As can be seen from The Timeline March looks like a busy time. Some bed prep is happening here at the tag end of February, but the ‘show gets on the road’ in March.

The concern with the CSA is that everyone is hurting at the grocery stores right now. The thinking here is that membership will be difficult to keep at the 20-25 member range. The farm is going to make an investment in hay production, because it can succesfully support those folks with horses, sheep, and goats that are otherwise stuck with feed store prices. All that to say, it is time to actually do planting for the early phase of main customers. Gray hair comes from trying to determine the indeterminable, so… we plant for the goal and have a fall back of the freezer and who knows what else. Our church gives away groceries to those who need…

In theory there will be a break in the weather coming soon – which means that the beaver dams need to be breached, and the 360 Coastal Redwood get planted in the NE corner of the woods – selling the peach greenhouse and possibly the small tractor – re-organizing for what comes next.

Let us know if you are interested in planting trees!

Stay tuned

2025 Season Dates!

FAQ (below link) updated 2/22/2025.. tells you all about signing up.

For basic questions about the CSA, the two links following are most useful:

CSA and CSA FAQs – info specific to the CSA…

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Boyce’s Shilofarm is more than just a CSA – it includes many different traditional farm elements that are from the time when a 80 acre farm was the sole means of support for a family. Well, retirement makes it possible for us to do that here, and we want to share it. So – here is what we do, and why we do it:

• The farm has a CSA, which is the main point of contact with the community. It also is something that keeps us going almost all year. 
• We raise hay. Quite a bit of it actually. There are a few hardy people who seem to enjoy helping us bring in the hay each summer.
• We have 26 acres of Forest (and a sawmill). It is a great place to get away from Urban/Suburban life for a walk.
• We have interesting farm places and things to let kids and adults experience hands-on what a farm is.

Check us out!