Titus Farms

Working Shares

So, we’re trying a new experiment this year… Working Shares. Many CSAs across the US are operated solely by member’s sweat equity, so we thought we’d give it a try. Basically, you work a certain shift for a certain number of hours per season in exchange for a CSA share. In our case we [...]

The First Winter Market

This Saturday, December 3 is the first Meridian Township Winter Farmers Market inside the Meridian Mall. We’ll be toasty warm inside the mall from 10 until 3pm in the JCPenny corridor, located in Okemos, just off from Marsh Rd.

There will be a variety of your favorite vendors in the area, plus a few [...]

Tomato Tasting Results

The results from the Annual Tomato Tasting are in and green zebra has been dethroned!

Green Zebra has long been the reigning champion of the annual Tomato Tasting, and by no small margin either. Every year we read over the catalogs to find the next tasty tomato to compete against the juggernaut and we’ve [...]

An Ode to Strawberries

O Strawberries!

How you have enriched each spring with your offering. We give you almost nothing and yet you give us ambrosia. The sweet, red fruit that you bear without thought, through the sorcery of nature, enthralls us. The taste of which is so entangled with spring that the two things cannot be distinguished [...]

CSA Begins this Week

Just a short reminder that if you’re a member of the 2011 CSA, you should be receiving emails pertaining to the CSA very soon. Please check those SPAM boxes. It’s been wet and rainy this spring, so our selection is smaller than usual… but we’re looking forward to a big strawberry crop!

Storms, Rain and… Throwing in the Towel?

Last night, a rather horrendous storm passed through Ingham County, with a potential tornado and damaging winds being the highlight. Somehow, we escaped the bulk of the storm, only getting about 1/3 inch of rain during the worst of it. All the plants outside are fine and there’s barely a greenhouse, plant or leaf [...]

What We’ve Been Up To

It’s been a busy spring, as always. This year, it seems to be a little more hectic because of the weather too. Today it is hot, hot, hot. Next week, freezing cold. Weather is always unpredictable, but a little stability shouldn’t be too much to ask for?

In general though, it has been a [...]

CSA Sign-Up Continues!

We’ve just got some spots left… so we’ll be accepting applications mailed by April 15.

If you’re even thinking about a *chicken share* then we need to know as soon as possible. The little cluckers are almost ready to hatch and they need to be counted and sorted.

Email rebecca (rebecca at [...]

Winter Production

While Rebecca was at MSU, professor John Biernbaum was really beginning to push the idea of using hoophouses for year-round production. Producing crops year-round was an integral part in MSU’s Student Organic Farm’s operation, but few farmers had adopted these ideas at that time.

After completing the course work and attending a few conference [...]

ANR Week at MSU

MSU has released their schedule for ANR week (held during spring break at MSU, March 4-12).

There are a lot of great conferences and meetings taking place that week. We hope to go to the Michigan Organic Conference. There are also meetings about maintaining a healthy flock of backyard chickens or artisanal cheese making. [...]