After months of planning, we took a dive into a new way of labeling and managing CSA boxes. Instead of individual names, boxes are now unnamed with a checklist to make sure you’re getting just the right thing.

Order of operations:

1. 📋 Check yourself off on clip board.

2. 📦 Pick up veggies from a Classic/Family CSA box.

3. 💚 Leave the box and tidy it away for the people after you as well as your amazing host who offers their space for us to use in the service of strengthening our local food system.

4. ♻️ If you want to trade, please do your best to

We’re thankful for a few days or rain after such a long stint of dry. Don’t get us wrong, we absolutely loved the sunny days. It meant we were able to get a lot of beds planted on the farm. This is one of the highlights of running a no-till farm in Sonoma County. Every year that we’ve been at it (18 years now) there has been at least a week and sometimes more in late January and early February where it’s sunny and warm and we can plant like crazy. This year it was ever so much longer than normal and we wished that we had had even transplants that were ready to put in the ground. We gambled on seeding more carrots when it’s normally a little early just because it was so warm and dry (maybe we’ll have early carrots).

Later this week we’ll be opening the CSA for 2026 for new members to start mid-April, early May or early June. It’s the same as most of you have experienced the last few years. We currently have 50 people on the waitlist since July of last year but that’s minimal as only 1 in 5-8 on the waitlist actually join us and we have 50-60 openings. This is the primary time that we let new members for the year.

Read more about new pick up sites, Flower start next CSA and bonuses for referring friends.

The last two weeks of sun have been absolutely tremendous for the farm. It has dried out the soil, meaning less rot and therefore loss of crops like our lettuces and also allowed us to plant, plant, plant! That means our nursery is practically empty of large starts as normally we cannot plant much this time of year. Next up we’ll start a good round of direct seeding!

But the nursery is simultaneously filling up on the other end as we are seeding huge amounts of lettuces, spring broccolis and cauliflowers plus kales and this week even our first Tomatoes for inside hoop houses! We haven’t had much luck with tomatoes in hoop houses but we have a new tactic so we’re hoping (if the weather cooperates with us) to have earlier tomatoes for you this year!

Happy New Year!

What a start to the New Year with all that rain?! It is quite goopy on the farm although we have not gone under and flooded yet, there has been a lot of water moving through the fields.

On Winter Solstice we welcomed new baby goats! Meet Sunna and Loki (more photos in today’s email). They’re 3 months old and awfully sweet.

Happy all the winter Holidays from Christmas and Hannakah to Kwanza and Solstice. We’ve added a little Holiday Card for you to today’s box. Of the holidays, Solstice seems the most relevant to the farm. It’s quite, it’s dark and the plants are not growing much.

Today is the LAST regular CSA box of 2025!

Mon, Dec 22nd we’ll have our Optional Holiday Box (email with details coming soon).

This weekend, we’ll miss our farmers’ markets due to both the anticipated rain as well as low staffing (so many of our crew are traveling to be with family).

Wed, Jan 7th will be our First Box of 2026!

Our mission at Singing Frogs Farm is simple..

Grow Soil

Grow Food

Grow Farmers

Built out a little bit more it is…

Grow rich, high biology soil while sequestering carbon and supporting the below and above ground ecosystems.

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As you all have heard, this is the last of our weekly CSA boxes.  This winter box we have for you today is pretty darn seasonal!

Today marks an important day, the beginning of the Persephone Period with the changing of the season. The Persephone Period is simply the time when your area has fewer than 10  hours of potential sunlight. The number of hours of sunlight is of utmost importance for us as we are growing your food - and our livelihood - via photosynthesis…

Photo of genetic a single mutant cauliflower mix of species. Exciting to find a new friend in the fields.

This week we both said goodbye to our beloved Mocha the Goat who has graced our farm the last 15 years with her goofy, prissy and gentle nature AND we said hello to two alpaca Red Kuri and Black Futsu.

Chicories and Garlic and so much more!!

This year we’re excited to have a lot of amazing Chicories… so what are Chicories?

Cooked or raw, chicories are rich in super healthy substances. They have a distinctly bitter taste but so many good attributes… They are high in fiber to satiates the appetite. Polyphenols like gallic acid and quercetin are abundant - and maybe more so in ours since we have proven higher polyphenols in carrots, spinach and cabbage due to our high soil health. They are high in vitamins A, C and B9 plus minerals like potassium, calcium and phosphorus.

Happy Halloween!

Bobby and Kaya won first prize in their pumpkin decorating at the Sebastopol Farmers’ Market this weekend during a drizzly day.

In the fields we’ve been busy clearing tomatoes and planting late winter Chicories and Napa Cabbage. We’ve been clearing eggplant, cucumbers and peppers from the hoop houses and seeding even more carrots, spinach, arugula and planting lettuces and fennels. With this, we’re continuing with construction projects…

This week’s newsletter is full of produce notes and recipes on our Green tomatoes, Kohlrabi, Bunching Greens and more!

Loving these giant and buttery delicious Kohlrabi in our bottom fields of amazing Brassica Blues!

Although an October rain shouldn’t be out of the ordinary, it feels like a very early start to the rainy season… and no frost. We used to have our first frost around equinox (last week of September) with one as early as September 5th. But the last 6 years our first frost date has really shifted to mid and now late October. What’s next?

Autumn Broccoli means Winter is Coming…

Read more on:

A look to the Winter CSA logistics

What to expect in your box this fall/winter

Note on the end of Egg Shares as well as Summer Add-On Shares.

First Rain means first winter cover crop... our team of Maddie, Kayce and Maggie chopped down our second crop of corn... the whole crew did a quick weed and a mix of grains and legumes was seeded. They will just love this rain for getting started!

We had a very sad event on the farm this weekend where we lost one of our four goats to a condition he’d been struggling with. Sadly, outside of this, he was very healthy and vibrant to say the least. We’re a little forlorn not only because we miss him but he was an integral part of our flock which certainly has a job on the property.

In the Tomato Quart just now we have a lot of very big orange tomatoes. We hope you enjoy these. There are both Dr. Wyche (just orange) and Mountain Spirit Bi-Color (orange with red rays inside) from a small seed company in Carbondale Colorado. While Lettuce is thriving our tomatoes are quite challenged this year. The coldest summer on record did not do well for them. Our peppers and eggplant are in the hot hoop houses so they’re happy but not so much the tomatoes. I think the Mountain Spirit coming from a cold climate has really made it thrive.

This photo seems like a microcosm for this last couple weeks. Young Brassicas in the ground (interplanted with lettuces) in between mature crops of summer goodness (tomatoes in this case).

As day lengths are shortening, we have a strict plan for when to get our winter brassica and amaranth crops in the ground. I’m talking about our Broccolis, Cauliflowers, Cabbages, Kales, Chard, Spinach, Beets and even Brussels Sprouts.

It’s Caprese Salad Season! Recipe inside.

We’ve been asked a couple times how the heat affects the farm. Honestly, we’re really still reeling with the fact that we had such a cold June and July. Please note… we’re only finally happy with our tomato quarts NOW and it’s September. Our summer crops have certainly been hurting AND all of our thoughts are on winter. We only just now are feeling barely flush with Heirloom Tomatoes.

Yesterday we said goodbye to a long time farm resident, Theo the Cat. Theo has been with us 17 years. He had a brain tumor and neurological issues (his hind legs didn’t work and he became blind and in the end couldn’t find his food). Theo and his two brothers Yaki and Suki were barn cats, our neighbor and CSA member Anne volunteers at the SPCA and helped us find these brothers that had their cage near a window and swatted at every bird outside. We build a cat sized attic in the downstairs of the barn and locked them in there for a month and then eventually let them out and they’ve been with us ever since. Read more….