Greetings from the farm 10/29,

Farm Day update November 15 is still the day! We are still pretty overwhelmed with work to be done on the farm before the farm day, but we want to be sure to make it happen before Thanksgiving. While we want to make the most of the farm day, farm work comes first! So, we are going full bore on clearing out fields, working ground and planting for Spring. That being said, the farm might look a bit more genuine and active. We'll see how the next few weeks go. We will probably send out more information soon, but as of now we are planning on having some complimentary food options like baked Potatoes and maybe even Roasted Sweet Corn, as well as Apple Cider. Like normal, we will have a few local vendors as well with some other food options like Tamales and such. We will be doing some farm tours and there will likely be more to see in the field this season, we will have a bunch of Farm animals around and more! The event will run from about 11 am until 4 o'clock at the Farm 1223 Clausen Road Burlington, WI 53105. Farm Update As mentioned above, we are doing everything we can to finish up for the season in the fields. As you may have noticed this season, many of our markets are open later into the Fall than normal. We are very thankful for the opportunity to continue selling into November, but it does come with a slight downside. While we are so busy harvesting for these late season markets (and while we have so much produce that normally would have been frozen off by now), we are behind on clearing out fields, planting for Spring and plowing fields. Also, many of the people who help us out on the farm line up other work to start up at the end of October, so there are not nearly as many helping hands as there were throughout the season. We still have a lot of Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes and Fall Squash to harvest for storage. There is also a lot of irrigation equipment and Plastic mulch to be cleared out of the fields. For Spring, we are still trying to put in another planting of Spinach, Winter Wheat and our Garlic planting! For plowing the fields, it is important to plow and work the ground to dig up some of the large clumps of soil that are made from the hard rains that we saw this season. The freezing and thawing of Winter will turn those clumps into a fine sand, ready to seed into for Spring. If we are forced to wait for Spring, we may miss the opportunity to see that soil worked down properly and it will take precious time away from us that we need in the Spring for planting. All it takes is some rain and/or freezing weather to start up this Fall for us to get kicked out of the fields and unable to work ground for the rest of the Fall. So for us, it's time to get back to work! Thank you all so much for you membership this season! It makes more of a difference than you can know! Having the financial relief going into Spring allows us to focus on growing and not setting up funding for the season while we wait for crops to get up to size and rather than paying a high interest on that borrowed money, the bounty of our crops are able to pay the interest. THANK YOU ALL so much for your support this past season and we hope that you will consider signing up again for the 2027 season! Hope to see you again yet this season at market or the Farm Day, but if not have a great Winter and we will see you in the Spring! From all of us at the GLP team!


~ Geneva Lakes Produce Team and Koster Family