The Last Markets of 2025
There are two weeks left in 2025 but this week is the last chance to get some of veggies, citrus, fruit and olive until the calendar changes to the new year.
After the Davis Farmers Market on Saturday, December 20, we will be taking one week off from the market to spend time with family for the holidays and prep for the new year.
We only will be missing one market but we will be able to take almost two weeks off before we are back to harvesting and working on the farm.
It is a great chance to step away from the farm and look at it from a different perspective as we talk to family and friends about how its going.
The end of 2025 will mark the end of year four of the farm and the last 18 months have been a delightful whirlwind going from one property to four farms and adding many more crops. Our final newsletter on New Year’s Eve will wrap up this year that has been the best so far for the farm.
If you need any last minute holiday gifts come by the market today to grab some olive oil. Everyone has been very excited we have the small bottles and are getting some as stocking stuffers or gifts for work colleagues.
After skipping the December 27 farmers market will be back on Saturdays beginning January 3 and every week after that until the 2026 holidays.
For the Wednesday Davis Farmers Market we are taking an extended break from it after today’s market. We won’t be attending it until April when the production of everything we plant in the spring is ready to be harvested.
This week will be the last of the Fuyu persimmons for the season. There is not many left on the trees and they are very ripe and flavorful right now.
It has been an unusual last three weeks with all the foggy and cloudy weather combined with temperatures being much lower than usual. Some of our plantings of veggies we expected to be harvesting in January we are starting to harvest now.
This weather is leading to everything barely growing at all as we approach the shortest day of the year on Sunday. Once the sun comes out everything will grow rapidly thanks to the soil having lots of moisture in it from the fog.
But who knows when we see the sun as there is forecasted to be a rainstorm starting this weekend.
We wrapped up the olive harvest yesterday and this morning it was cold pressed so now we have it all in tanks ready to bottle up. Compared to last year it is less olive oil but not as light of a crop as we expected.
In just a couple of weeks we will be back in the olive grove pruning the trees to prepare them for the 2026 olive crop.
There are still a few other tasks around the farm we are getting done tomorrow ahead of the forecasted rain which we can use to spend some more time in front of the computer getting those tasks all sorted.
We are finalizing our seed orders now that we have our crop plan done so the seed companies hopefully will be able to ship the seeds to us in the next couple of days. We start seeding January 1 so getting them ahead of time makes life much simpler.
