Continuing our show-and-tell of the humans farming your food & flowers and tending this land with Leo.

Leo is a Sonoma County native hailing from Windsor who has been farming with us since Summer 2024. Although often quiet while harvesting or weeding, Leo is contemplating the farm, not only the soil but the design and structures, he’s listening to a podcast to learn more. He loves soil and farming.

Earth Day doesn’t seem to have quite so much press these days, but here on the farm “Every Day is Earth Day” isn’t a slogan, it’s simply how we live and work. How does this manifest on our farm?

People: Everyone on the farm has a deep desire yes, to farm, but to farm in a way that supports Mother Earth. We could all be doing more lucrative and less physically demanding work. That said, we feel an imperative to be a part of the solution, growing food for our community that also feeds the ecosystem.

We’re thrilled to be starting our main season CSA and we have 32 new members joining us this week and next plus more coming in our next round May 6th and the last June 1st.  This late spring newsletters will have lots of little bits of logistics.

Also in this newsletter, Happy Birthday to our two adult goats Flower and Romanesco! They are an important (and fun) part of our larger farm system.

We’re going to continue our show-and-tell of the humans farming your food & flowers and tending this land. This week we take a look at someone who was. Elle’s last day farming on the land was yesterday. We are torn between being sad and happy.

Check out this fun interview Amaia made of her.

Our Farm Manager Sean is a farmer at heart and is the powerhouse behind the daily work at the farm. Check out this fun interview Amaia made of him.

This is Sean’s 4th season at Singing Frogs Farm. He had another three years working at two different small scale organic farms in Connecticut & Pennsylvania for three years before joining us. Being on the farm he quickly took on many higher level responsibilities from restaurant liaison, making a mean compost pile, harvest manager and finally full farm manager.

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.

‍ ‍ … read more…

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!