Just this past Saturday we delivered the first couple weeks of CSA shares for the season and were relieved to harvest enough vegetables to fill the boxes! My goal for this year’s blog, each week throughout the season, is to photograph the family share once harvested and packed, and I am already failing in my responsibility. […]
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So many things have happened since my last blog post and I do know that when I get a little lax about updating our journal I will look back over the entries and not have a sense of accomplishment. Here are a few of the things that we have done since my last entry… George […]
The weather has been cooperating with us and in between rain showers we were able to transplant around 3/4 acre of onions and about 1/2 acre of potatoes. We even transplanted another succession of broccoli. Now we need to plow our summer growing area and are once again praying for dry weather so we can […]
For those of you readers who eat our food or are interested in the happenings on the farm; meet the crew who will be on the farm growing the food and tending to the chickens and pigs for the 2011 production season. We will be working very hard this entire season seeding, transplanting, hoeing attempting […]
So… According to our ‘production schedule’, about 12 days ago we were to transplant early greens, just so they will mature for our first few CSA shares of the season, but the fields were too wet meanwhile the plants kept growing and were getting so BIG and needing to go outdoors. The last week of […]
We have been making vermicompost here on the farm for about a decade. Each season we construct a new compost pile that is roughly 50 feet long by 5 feet across. We first put a layer of straw/goat poop from mucking out the goat barn. This is followed by a layer of horse manure from […]
Our weather here in the mountains has been very warm so things around the farm are growing ever so quickly. It has been in the 70’s during the day which is a little unusual to have temperatures this warm in March. We are currently working on fencing the pig pasture because as the weather warms […]
Our farming season is well underway, so we will be spending less time strategizing, planning and executing our timber harvest plan for the farm vacation cabin. With us getting busy growing food and Lee scheduled to return to Maine the beginning of April, we decided that we best harvest a relatively large tree (to us), […]
That is how I felt after looking back over what little I’ve accomplished this past week… Carl has reason to fire me. On Thursday, all I did was assist Carl somewhat installing greenhouse end walls, tend to the little piggies and goats, clean up white pine tree branches and stack the wood. On Friday all […]
And seeding won’t end until September – but I feel a bit of relief – knowing that we will hopefully deliver something edible to our CSA come early May. Once we begin heating our propagation greenhouse, especially since it is heated with propane, we try to fill it with seeded flats as quickly as possible […]