Mud Dog Farm, LLC

We will be at LOFM this weekend July 10 with:
GARLIC!! First of the season
Turnips
Snow peas, string beans,
Shish*to pepper
kale, chard, radish, green onion, etc.

Reminder that we will not be at Lake Oswego Farmers Market on Saturday June 26.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

We will have garlic scape at the market on June 19. Last available date for garlic scape will be July 3. geez such short season crop. Starting July 3, we will also have hardneck garlic!! lots of it.

We will be at Lake Oswego farmers market this coming Saturday June 5. We will have zucchini, cucumber, green onion, arugula, bok choi, kale, chard, collard green, radish, microgreens, eggs etc.

And I spied garlic scapes in the field. They are just forming so it will be another two weeks for garlic scape and three weeks for the garlic. We will have bumper crop of scape and garlic.

We will be at Lake Oswego Farmers Market Saturday May 15 from 8:30AM till 1:30PM. come early since good stuff will sell out!!

We will have radish (3 kinds), Kale (not sure how many variety), chard, pea shoots, arugula, butter head lettuce, rhubarb, bok choi, eggs, limited quantities of cucumber, zucchini and collard green.

I will be saying good bye to my lovable Pyrenees Holly this week. She is the mud covered dog in the banner. She was limping just under a month ago and we thought she had sprained her wrist, two weeks went by without any improvement and took her to our great vet. At the time we decided to take a wait and see. Another two weeks went by and it was getting worse so back to the vet and X-rayed the "sprain" area. Both my vet and radiologist confirmed that it was Osteosarcoma a very aggressive form of cancer with very poor prognosis.

She is taking large amount of pain killer but she is still hurting. Quality of life is diminishing so we will be saying our goodbys this coming week. Bummer. 😿 her play buddy Aussie shepherd Austin will be looking for her...

We will start this season at Lake Grove Farmers Market. Dates are April 11, 18 and 25 from 1:00PM till 5:00PM. Location is Hallmark Dr between Mercantile Dr and Collins Way.

we will have kale, chard, turnip, green onion, butterhead lettuce, pac choi (Bok choi), pea shoots, eggs etc.

Our regular season will start on May 8 Saturday at Millenium Park in Lake Oswego, Time is 8:30AM till 1:30PM.

To our dear customers and friends at Lake Oswego Farmers Market,

With the rise in Covid cases in and around Portland and with Gov. Brown's new orders for Washington County, Clackmas County and Marion County along with Multnomah County on new restriction, we have made a very difficult decision to NOT PARTICIPATE in upcoming farmers market on Saturday Nov. 21 at Lake Oswego Farmers Market.

I know some of you were looking forward to seeing us then and we really would have loved to see you all but we feel it is in best interest for us to remain isolated and to be safe.

We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience and the disappointment this may cause. We hope to see you all next year.

Again, we will not be at Lake Oswego Farmers Market on Saturday Nov. 21

Sincerely,

Shawn & Bonnie

PS we wish all of you a safe holiday season.

We are located within 1.5 miles from level 1 evacuation zone by the Clackmas-Multnomah county line. We are still okay but as a precaution, we are moving most of our equipment out to a safer location. Air quality index is over 500 right now.

Unfortunately, wind is blowing the smoke and fire toward our direction. Level 3 "evacuate now" order location is only 7 miles or so from our farm.

Some of our neighbors have made makeshift horse paddock for those moving their livestock out of level 3 in Estacada and eagle creek. So we've seen literally a convoys of horse trailers coming in our area. One place had about dozen or so horse trailers parked. They may have to relocate again to a safer location if the fire comes any closer.

Unfortunately for our flocks of chicken and ducks, there is no place where we can take them. Air quality in our region is well over 400 and the birds are sensitive to both smoke and carbon monoxide.

Mud Dog Farm, LLC updated their business hours.

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How we manage insect pests and w**ds.
For insects, we use insect netting. These are 12 feet wide and 100 feet long each. And you can see in the photo below. Insects love kale and without the netting, they would be peppered with tiny holes and big chunks taken out.

For w**d, we don't use chemicals at all. On the ground, you can see purple material. It's called w**d guard plus and it is organic certified. Just as the name says, it keeps the w**d from popping up and taking over the kale and other crops. Black material is geo-tex fabric and is a ground cover material. It lasts for 5 years minimum and again keeps for a clean walk way.

Kale is looking pretty nice!

Thank goodness for unheated greenhouse also known as hoop house.

Our plants are protected from pelting rain, strong Gorge wind this time of the year. We had some cold days about two weeks ago. Portland got chilly and we had about 3 inches of hail/snow on the ground one morning. It melted away in about a day or two but if it were not for the greenhouse, we probably would have lost some crop.