2024 Shares Are Available Both Full and Short Season Shares are Available January 24, 2023 We have both full and short season shares available to the general public.  You can get more details here.  Full season shares are $500 and you will receive 15 weeks of produce between the first week of June and the […]

Citizen Scientists at GI Acres

Today we started our summer project with the University of Nebraska. We are participating in the Nebraska Urban Soil Health program along with 540 other gardeners around the state.  As part of this I am mailing soil from our 100 square foot plot dedicated to this program.  We will be using a geotextile ground cover, […]

Only 2 weeks until the Easter Basket Extravaganza

We are donating the value of a short season share to Project Hunger for their Easter Basket Extravaganza. If you win our basket you can choose a short season (6 weeks of veggies, usually picked up on Thursday evening, between mid-July and mid-September) or $225 off of the cost of a full season share (15 […]

Took our plant order to Barb at Barb’s Green House today

Took our plant order to Barb at Barb’s Green House today Plants that Barb started last yar We ordered more than 1400 plants today plus a tray of leeks and shallots.  We will have cabbages, winter squash, summer squash, tomatoes, eggplant, okra, kohlrabi, peppers, basil, broccoli, broccolini and lots of other things that we will […]

Both Full and Short Season Shares are Available

We have both full and short season shares available to the general public as of tonight.  You can get more details here.  Full season shares are $475 and you will receive 15 weeks of produce between the first week of June and the second week of October.  Short season shares are $225 and will be […]

Grand Island Acres is Supporting Project Hunger

April 9, 2022 at the Conestoga Mall in Grand Island Project Hunger will be auctioning off Easter Baskets. This is a fundraiser to help them support local food banks and kitchens. We donated a basket with a short season share in our basket. You can bid online on our basket or any of them by […]

Plants Ordered for the Season

We delivered seeds and the list of plants that we are having Barb start for us this year. She is starting more than 1200 plants for us and a tray of both shallots and leeks (288 plugs in each tray). Barb Quandt, of Barb’s Greenhouse has started our plants for the last 5 years and […]

Good Friday Planting

Good Friday is our traditional da to plant at least part of the potatoes. Today was absolutely gorgeous. It was in the mid 70’s maybe even 80 in the afternoon and I planted about 15 lbs of potatoes in the back garden. All of the potatoes are going in the back garden. I still have […]

Seeds are Arriving

This is a fun time of year even if it is miserably cold right now. Current temperature is -5F and tomorrow when I go to work it is supposed to be -22F. It is fun, though, because seeds are arriving in the mail. Last weekend Kathy and I ordered seeds from five different companies and […]

We Have Added a Recipe Page

We have started recording interesting recipes on our web site. You can find the recipes here or just click on the recipes tab at the top of the page. We have purchase an addon for the website WP Recipe Maker by Bootstrapped Ventures. It is a powerful recipe program and we have purchased the upgrade […]

GI Acres is Growing

Ok we grow a lot especially during the gardening season. Take a look at the pictures of our weekly shares if you don’t believe us. We are actually getting bigger. The 15 acres around our little urban farm is up for sale and we have a signed purchase agreement with the seller. Now pending approval […]

And We Are Back Again

Welcome to the end of 2020. It has been a strange year for all of us. At GI Acres, we had a good year for the farm. We sold/traded all 10 full season shares and sold 3 of 6 short season shares. The weather cooperated and production was good. We did have issues with rabbits […]

Visiting an Urban, Urban Farm

I like to call what we do Urban Farming. The truth is that we live in a community of 50,000 people and have an acreage on the edge of Grand Island. We live on a suburban acreage. We play at farming and enjoy running our CSA but both Kathy and I have full time jobs […]

Just What is in a Full Share?

We plant a wide variety of crops. You will start the season with cool weather and spring crops: Lettuce, greens (chard, mustard, spinach, collard), radishes, garlic scapes, rhubarb and winter onions. During the warmer months you can expect green beans (several varieties), summer squash, greens (chard, mustard, spinach, collard) , herbs, cabbage, onions, new potatoes […]

Getting Ready for 2019

CSA Day is on February 22 of 2019. If you are a returning CSA Member we are offering $40 off of a full membership if you sign up before February 16. A full membership will be $400 after that date. We will be offering 10 full memberships and 6 short season memberships again this year. […]

It was a very productive Memorial Day Weekend in the Garden

A combination of the weather and our travel schedule has kept us out of the garden and put us a bit behind.  We got all of our plant in the garden over Memorial Day weekend but we still have seed to plant.  The weekend was really hot (record setting high temp and record setting high […]

And the Garden is a Go

We finally got to spend a day in the garden.  Between the weather, holidays and travelling it has been slow this year.  The weather this year has been frightful.  The first potatoes went in on Good Friday and we got snow for Easter.  Then we had snow or ice every weekend until the end of […]

Found some cool food and veggie videos check them out

Check out the cool chives video from the lyrical chef MackaB.  We will post other videos by him and you can subscribe to his Youtube page if you like them. We do still have shares available for the 2018 season, both full shares and short season shares.    

Week 17, September 20, 2017

We are coming to a close for the season.  I anticipate that we will only have one more week this year.  Maybe 2 but that will be dependent on the weather.  There is no pick up next week but the last will be Sunday October 8.  This week included melons and winter squash.  We also […]

Week 14, August 30 2017

We are closing in on Labor Day.  The bush beans are looking like they are about done and the winter squash are starting to get some color.  The Nebraska State Fair is in full swing and Kathy and I both got ribbons on some of our entries.  I entered dehydrated tomatoes and shredded zucchini.  Kathy […]