Joey was one of the folks to leave without notice in the peak of our season, I am now forgiving him, because I have to say he put in some good energy into this farm. We have a new greenhouse in production and the land was graded with a dozer, thus the earth very hard, but […]
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We just finished transplanting our strawberries for the 2009 season and seeded cover crops in most of our growing areas. We feel a certain “RELIEF†that these major chores are completed and that we will soon have a rest from the demands of the farming season.   As our drought continues, we are contemplating setting up […]
Click on the above picture to see a field with more rocks than ours! My husband is forever complaining about the rocks in our fields, each new season suggesting that we pull all the rocks out of our fields, with me arguing back that it is an impossible task! In the picture it is beautiful […]
I have been so focused on the workload required of my husband and I this season because of the folks we hired who did not fulfill their commitment to us, that I felt I was overly negative of the new “me generation”, so I thought I should post about Apprentices that we hired in the past who were very dedicated […]
This has been another year of unreliable help for us. Last year was our first year where our farm help left without notice, and it has happened once again this year. We hired four apprentices in March when we normally have only one with the expectation that 2 of the 4 would stay for the […]
I spent the past two days trying to save our garlic and I’m only a third of the way done. I am trying to remove our rye/clover cover crop from the entire garlic bed – that is the cover crop growing between each clove of garlic, and each clove is planted about 6 inches apart, […]
I just spent the entire weekend freeing roughly 600 strawberry plants from Henbit (Lamium amplexcaule) that is winding it’s way throughout the strawberries making it rather difficult to remove the henbit rooting system without damaging our strawberries.  I just took a package of frozen strawberries out of the freezer so that I remember just why […]
This past weekend we hiked with our neighbors, the Daltons, along the ridge above our farm. Winter makes for great hiking in the mountains because of the spectacular views the deciduous trees provide us with once they have dropped their leaves. Thanks to our neighbors, who invited us and guided us on our hike along […]
This weekend we just finished pulling out the spent plants from this years greenhouse crop of peppers, tomatoes, eggplant, cucumbers and basil. We have gotten in the habit each year, normally around mid December, to pull all the spent plants and trellising out of our greenhouse so that we can plant a cover crop. (We […]
 We use a “burdizzo†to neuter our goats. PETA would probably not be happy with us for this type of castration! This method seems to work well for us as it crushes the spermatic cords and requires no tetanus shots, no possibility of infection, and it is a quick procedure lasting around 60 seconds […]