07/10/2026
Long post alert!
Striking the balance between a production farm and an education farm with community programs is tricky. If you’ve noticed that our harvests have been modest, we are having a challenging season and don’t have as much produce available as planned. There’s many factors at play including early high heat, a smaller farm crew, irrigation woes, and a large gopher population. The team is busy troubleshooting, re-planting, and catching up where we can.
While we don’t have carrots and cucumbers yet, we do have a lot to celebrate in 2026, including a new 5 year farm lease, a successful farm-based internship program, full farm camps, and many important partnerships. Our team is strong and motivated and the farm is beautiful, buzzing with pollinators and verdant with a diversity of plant life in a changing climate(very little bare soil!).
The farm is the heart of the Lost Sierra Food Project and we love what we do. We are grateful for you, our supporters and farm shoppers, who believe in bolstering a local food economy. Everyone here at LSFP is a beginning farmer, including myself, and we are committed to learning and growing for the betterment of Plumas County. It’s both rewarding and vulnerable to put ourselves out there with our veggies and values.
Wondering how you can help? We’d love to see you out on the farm! Our Farm Stand is Tuesday from 5-7pm featuring u-pick strawberries, flowers, and herbs. Plus we do volunteer mornings each Wednesday from 8-10am. Attend our other activities too. We will be announcing fun events and workshops soon. Not on our newsletter? Please subscribe by visiting our website. We send nice emails with recipes too 🙂
Sincerely, Vanessa Vasquez, LSFP Director
