Meet the newest member of the Owl Bluff team, Rosie! Rosemary Kathryn Calvo decided to surprise us and make her debut yesterday, just shy of 38 weeks. This perfect little peanut came in a hurry, but mom and baby are doing great. Big brother Rudy is excited to show her around the farm!
🌱 HIRING: Seasonal Farm Crew Members – Summer 2026 🌱
📍 Owl Bluff Farm | Southeast Minnesota (Driftless Region)
We’re looking for a motivated, curious individuals to join our small crew for the 2026 growing season! If you love working with your hands, learning by doing, and spending time outside this might be for you. 🌿
The details:
🕒 Full-time or part-time, seasonal (May - Oct 2026)
💰 $15–$20/hr (depending on experience)
🥕 Certified Organic + Real Organic Project farm
🏡 Possible nearby housing
What you’ll do:
• Harvest, wash & pack veggies
• Seed, transplant & prep beds
• Weed, manage pests & care for soil
• Work in greenhouses & high tunnels
• Occasional farmers market or delivery help (optional)
You might be a great fit if you’re:
✔️ Reliable, hardworking & curious
✔️ Comfortable with physical outdoor work
✔️ Excited to learn and contribute positively to a crew dynamic
(no prior farm experience required!)
Perks:
🥗 Daily lunch
🥕 Unlimited veggie seconds
🌻 Supportive & respectful work environment
📩 To apply:
Email Carrie at [email protected] with a short intro, relevant experience (if any), and your 2026 season availability.
👉 Learn more: @owlbluff |
The first indoor @lacrescentfarmers market is this Tuesday, November 18, from 4-7 at the La Crescent Area Event Center! We’re still harvesting lots of fresh greens from our unheated tunnels and will have plenty of freshly-dug, frost-sweetened carrots so you can stock up for thanksgiving and the soup season beyond. We’ll also bring some of our heirloom dried beans, candied baby ginger for your holiday baking, and more! Heads up - We may have to dip out a little early if I need to get the little helper down for bed, so come early of you can! Hope to see you there. 🍁🦃🥕🥕🥬
These beauties deserved a spot on the grid. We majorly geeked out over the colors on these radicchio today. Though most were smaller than we hoped, we’re still calling it a success that we were able to keep them growing in the field until mid-November in MN. 🌈
🌧️ Don’t let a little drizzle stop you — it’s the final outdoor @lacrescentfarmers market of the season!
We’re loaded up with freshly harvested produce— perfect for stocking your fridge (our greens last a long time!).
🍅 Thanks to the warm weather, we still have summer favorites like tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant, plus all the fall goodies:
🥬 Spinach, radishes, salad greens (lettuce mix, arugula, baby kale, fall mix, and baby chard/beet green mix), bok choy, mini broccoli bunches, fennel, herbs, and baby ginger 🌿
✨ While you’re there, make sure to sign up for our email list to stay in the loop about winter markets, home delivery, and on-farm pickup options!
📍See you today, 4–dusk — come celebrate the season with us!
🌪️ Tornado Update 🌪️
A tornado hit our farm Wednesday evening and caused serious damage. We’re so grateful we’re all safe—but we lost the roof of our pole shed, two growing tunnels (housing peppers, melons & cukes), and had damage to our tomato/eggplant tunnel. Trees also came down on our deer fence.
Some silver linings:
• The frame of our main high tunnel held strong (shoutout to Four Season Tools).
• Our newly completed Deep Winter Greenhouse—built with @umnextension —survived with just some bent trim.
• MiEnergy worked through the night in the tangled woods behind us to restore power. We’re incredibly grateful.
🧡 Within hours, neighbors were at our door—with hugs, chainsaws, tractors, water, and a generator.
If you’re thinking of helping, we’re tackling debris removal today and trying to salvage crops & repair the deer fence. Cooler weather is giving us a window to make progress.
Huge thanks to everyone who’s reached out, brought food, helped clean up, or just checked in.
Amazingly, a lot of our field crops held up—and we’re moving forward. Orders even went out yesterday thanks to our powerhouse crew: Ari, Erin, Heather & Madison 💪
We’re tired, but hopeful—and so thankful.
It’s looking like a perfect afternoon for the La Crescent Farmers Market—especially after getting rained out last week! ☀️ We missed seeing you and hope you’ll make it out today!
We’ll be here from 4–7 with LOTS of fresh picked veggies for you.
🥗 Salad mix
🌱 Probably the last of our baby spinach until fall
🥬 Gorgeous dino kale bunches
❤️ Juicy red radishes
🧅 Crisp green onions
🌟 The first sugar snap peas of the season!
Come early—the snap peas won’t last long! See you at the market!
We may not have been at the @lacrescentfarmers market this week due to the weather, but you can still get your veggies from us this week through our online store!
This week’s harvest is packed with spring favorites—baby kale mix, salad mix, mini romaine heads, green garlic, green onions, chives, purple pac choi bunches, the first baby carrots, and our pasture-raised eggs from @thegardnerfamilyfarm are back! 🥕🥚💚
We also have a limited number of certified organic tomato and pepper plants looking for a home in your garden! 🌱🍅🌶️
Order now through our online farm store:
📦 Friday delivery in Rochester
🏡 Saturday on-farm pickup or delivery in Houston County.
🛒 owlbluff.com/farm-store for details
🕘 Order by 9pm Thursday
We’re still hoping to add some hard-working, veggie-loving folks to our summer crew. Come work with us! DM or email at [email protected] if you think you might be interested! 🧑🌾🥬🍅🌸
🌿🎉 The first outdoor La Crescent Farmers Market of the season kicks off TODAY from 4–7 PM!
We’re bringing the fresh greens you’ve been waiting for all winter:
🥗 Salad Mix
🥬 Head Lettuce
🌱 Spinach
🧅 Green Onions
🥬 Baby Bok Choy
🍓 Rhubarb (perfect for spring desserts!)
Come stock up, say hello, and celebrate the start of market season with us! 🌞🛒
📍 La Crescent Farmers Market | 4–7 PM today
