Author Archives: Farmer

Transplanting our first spring crops

We finally have transplanted broccoli, mustards and kale to the field.  We normally transplant these first crops to the field the first of April so the kale and mustards will be ready for our CSA around mid May.  Being Vegetable Market farmer’s, every week from April through October, we are seeding and transplanting trying to have a continuous harvest throughout the […]

Farmer Mandy and Little Arthur

Little Arthur Farmer Mandy Little Arthur and Brother Frank I thought that Farmer Mandy deserves a special place on this site. Mandy apprenticed with us in 2005 through 2006. During her apprenticeship, she experienced the birth of some very special goats. These goats have since been adopted by Mandy and are waiting for her and […]

Alivin Kirkpatrick

  Alvin in his dozer wile grading for our 4  new greenhouses              Alvin with Carl and Donna checking the level after a pass with his  Dozer Alvin has some very funny phrases and this weeks phrase came out when we were discussing his new diesel truck. (The engine of his new […]

And the growing season begins…

          Our Little Seedlings! We constantly have projects lined up and it seems that if we don’t have enough projects in the pipeline to last us a few years, we must think of more projects, just to keep us from thinking that we might someday have nothing to do but sit on the porch […]

Disbudding Day!

Spiffy’s baby #1 after disbudding Spiffy’s baby #2 after disbudding Disbudding is where one uses a really hot electric “disbudding iron” to burn around the kid goat’s horn bud. We put the baby goat in a box so that we can hold its head still during this process. We first shave around the horn buds […]