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2008 annual membership begins Monday, January 7th. We’re looking forward to seeing everyone!

Touch the Earth Farm will be closed for New Year’s Eve. Please call if you need to schedule egg pick up later that week.
Our 2008 Annual CSA season will begin Monday, January 7th—welcome to our new members!

Visit our CSA page for details and to download the application. Annual memberships are almost filled, but there are still a few large and small seasonal shares. Get your application in soon!

The New York Times published a wonderful article yesterday in the “Dining & Wine” section, titled “Preservation’s Progress,” clearly a play on the 18th century book title, Pilgrim’s Progress. I can assure you, however, that these turkeys are far more entertaining than the novel, and we love raising them here at Touch the Earth Farm. [...]

We had our first killing frost Sunday night, which finally means the end of the tomatoes, basil, and zucchini. We had a good long run of summer produce, and I’ll miss it until next season. Eating seasonally can be a difficult shift mentally, but we’ve found that enjoying such terrific fruits and vegetables straight from [...]

It’s official: we’ve been updated to severe drought status where we’re located in Washington County. The US Drought Monitor shows our area as one of the worst in the state along with Southern Maryland.

Tomatoes in the garden inevitably mean tomato horn worms in the garden, the larva of the hawk sphinx moth. Even though the larvae can be quite large—four plus inches—they can be darned hard to spot. In fact, I’ve pretty nearly had my hands on them before seeing them. What I can spot, however, are their [...]

Potato bugs are one of the biggest pests we face on the farm, as they can quickly defoliate and kill entire rows of potatoes. The adult Colorado potato beetle looks like this, and they over-winter in the soil, emerging to feed and lay eggs as soon as they find a suitable host plant. This is [...]

Here is a nice visual example of the difference between eggs from healthy, free-range chickens who eat a varied diet of greens and protein-rich insects and those trucked to the grocery store from factory farms.
On the left is a Touch the Earth Farm hard-boiled egg with a rich, golden yolk loaded with omega-3s, vitamin E, [...]

Thank you and welcome to all our new members! Here at Touch the Earth Farm, we’re looking forward to a year filled with fun and delicious food!