Farm Updates

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August 31st: Our sweet corn will continue through most if not all of September.  We will provide an exact date as we get closer.  Other produce items are slowing down for the season.  There will be decreased amounts of cucumbers, zucchini, pickling cucumbers, eggplant, beans, and muskmelons.  These will be at the stand sporadically.  We will continue to have field grown tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, potatoes, and onions for a while yet, as well as watermelons.  We have started harvesting our fall squash, including butternut, buttercup, delicata, honeynut, acorn, carnival, and spaghetti squash.  We will start having pumpkins after Labor Day.  Our Blain's Farm & Fleet location is now closed for the season.  You will be able to find us daily at the JFK location until the end of September, and also at the Dubuque Farmers' Market through October.  

2024 Sweet Corn began on July 5th and ended on September 30th. 2024 was one of our more challenging years.  We experienced heavy rains with high winds in the first half of our season, which caused flash flooding, erosion, fertilizer reduction, and other problems.  Mid-season we experienced a derecho which flattened one of our plantings.  Late season we had a lack of rain and dealt with many critters that wanted to feast on our corn.  We are hoping to have more stable weather conditions in 2025.

During the last 10 years, our sweet corn has begun between July 3rd and July 14.  Our earliest ever start to our sweet corn season was on June 24, 2012.  The timing of our first sweet corn date depends completely on the weather in the early growing season.  Our sweet corn typically ends in mid-late September, all weather dependent.  We have typically planted our first sweet corn between April 1st - April 22th.