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Have you ever noticed that winter in Maine is a very dark time of year?  Our vegetable crops have noticed, too!  While I'm sure you've also noticed the cold temperatures of Maine winters, the reduction of daylight hours is really what "kills" the growing season.  At ten hours or less of daylight, or after the beginning of November every year, the days are too short for the vegetable plants to make any growth at all.  …

Does Ripley Farm have vegetables available for purchase this fall and winter? We've been getting this question a number of times lately so we want to answer it and provide the JUICY details. Yes! The fall is the time of great abundance and we are in the middle of collecting and squirreling away lots of organic produce much of which is available for you to buy now through the fall and into the winter. Here's …

As farmers we simultaneously prepare all year for the coming of the fall harvest season and dread it at the same time!  That's right, fall is a time of great abundance, but is very fleeting and we must find things to do with all of the extra produce!  So, we've gotten creative over the years that we've been farming and here are our four favorite ways to use up or preserve the abundance of the …

Ripley Farm is 'Sharing the Farm' with a new GIVEAWAY of a Friday CSA farm share! 

One lucky person will see what it's like to be a Ripley Farm CSA member for a week.  As a member-for-the-week, the winner will come to the farm to pick-up your box of super fresh, organic veggies harvested just for you.  Read our weekly newsletter with farm happenings, tips on how to use and store your veggies, and recipes!  …

Ripley Farm's 2013 CSA members can look forward to increased diversity in their weekly bouquets!  In order to have a good selection of flowers available for the whole 16 weeks of the CSA we grow both annual and perennial flowers.  In between the showers of the past week, we have been busy putting in over 20 additional varieties of perennial flowers in our CSA gardens near the pick-up area!  Luckily, the rain has ushered them …

First #1:  Welcome to Ripley Farm's first blog post ever!  Now you can check back to find out what's going on at the farm at the moment. 

First #2:  We saw moose tracks in our field today!  We've had our share of deer tracks but this is our first moose track sighting on the farm ever.  It's as big as Gene's hand.

First #3:  We seeded our first cover crop of 2013 today.  We put …