Fall Harvest Festival TOMORROW!

Based on how much fun our Fourth of July Festival was, you do not want to miss our Fall Harvest Festival!
TOMORROW! ALL DAY!
We’ll be serving our burgers, brats, beef on a stick, and delicious brisket sandwiches all from our own all natural beef, tornado fries, hot cider, coffee, and cold drinks.
Hayrides starting at 12:00 and continuing every hour until 4:00.
Fall produce.
Crafts.
And Lonesome Highway will play at 5pm!

We hope you’ll join us!

Fall Harvest Festival is fast approaching!

SAVE THE DATE!
October 22nd: All day, rain or shine
Farm market fall produce and all natural Angus beef, food and drinks, hay rides, crafts, and MUSIC! Lonesome Highway performs at 5 p.m.

We hope to see you there!

Thanks for your support!

Sorry this blog has not been kept up with this summer…we just wanted to say THANK YOU to all of our customers for your continued and new support. We have had a fantastic season, and it is continuing! We still have peppers, tomatoes, onions, potatoes, and more! Stay on the look out for fall vegetables that can be picked right from the garden while you wait. And, of course, as always, we’ve got plenty of beef.

We look forward to seeing more of you into the fall as the leaves begin to change around here…and look out for updates about our fast approaching Fall Festival!

JOIN US THIS MONDAY!

Berry Pickin’

Capon Crossing now has pick-your-own-strawberries (and will soon have pick-your-own-raspberries)! All this rain we’ve been having the past few days is sure to keep our ever-bearing berries happy and healthy, and you’ll be both too as soon as you come over and pick your own pint. See you soon!

(Don’t forget to mark our July 4th Celebration on your calender!)

Celebrating our One Year Anniversary July 4th!!

Hello! Sorry for the long posting hiatus…we’ll be more regular now that things are really up and running at Capon Crossing.

We’d like to formally invite you to a July 4th celebration here at the farm! There will be food, drinks, and live performances by the Clowes and Dunlap Band and Lonesome Highway. We’ll update again soon with more specific details, but we hope to see you then (if not sooner!).

Keep checking back here for updates on the celebration and more. We are currently building a greenhouse and are also expecting the arrival of some guinea keets next week, so please stay tuned for photos and videos!

Check out Lonesome Highway here and the Clowes and Dunlap Band here.

How To: Compost

(photo courtesy of livegreenmom.com)

Many people do not compost because it may seem gross or that it would attract animals.

The truth is it is a little gross, BUT, as long as it is done properly it will NOT attract animals and WILL attract good bugs such as worms that will break down the compost quickly and can later be transferred to your own garden. Plus, in the end, it actually smells really good…like summer!

Here’s how to go about composting:
1. Establish an outside area where you can put your compost that will be out of the way but convenient to get to. At Capon Crossing, we just make a pile, but there are lots of options for compost bins or tumblers, or you could just make your own. (Think of it like an extra tall raised garden bed.)

2. Gather a pile of “brown,” or “high-carbon” substances by your pile, tumbler, or bin to add to the food scraps. This is VERY key: this is what makes the compost into usable soil and smothers the smell so that animals are not attracted to the rotting scraps. High-carbon substances include: dry leaves, dry grass clippings, ashes, pine needles, saw dust, straw, stems and twigs, shredded newspaper or cardboard, dry stalks (such as corn or other plants), etc.

3. Save your kitchen scraps and put them in your pile! Anything fresh and uncooked can be composted: think apple cores, carrot and potato peels…pretty much any fruit and vegetable substance or yard clipping. (Coffee grounds are especially great for compost! Just make sure you have compostable coffee filters.) When you put these “green” or “high-nitrogen” substances, cover them completely with the “brown” listed above.

4. If you keep your pile moist and aerated by occasionally turning it with a shovel or stick, you will have beautiful, rich soil in no time that can be spread over a garden bed or any house plants as a nutrient booster.

5. DO NOT ADD: meat, dairy, fats (such as cooking oils), processed papers (such as printer paper), pet droppings, or anything that has been treated with chemical.

We’ll be spreading our own compost on our gardens soon as more seeds are planted and plants are transplanted. Have your own compost tips or stories? Or questions? Leave a comment!