I love this time of the season when we are mowing down spent crops, pulling up black plastic and disking the soil in preparation for cover crops. The farm looks so neat when we can no longer see a field of weeds that took over our spent crops. We had BIG plans for seeding buckwheat […]
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About a month ago, a few folks here in my little community of Spring Creek, were selected as a “Food Cluster” to represent Slow Food at the Terre Madre event in Turin Italy. Being a small farmer, there is not much money earned annually to fund a trip abroad, so our little cluster of farms […]
Click here for the recipe to make this eggplant, tomato basil pie
The past couple weeks have been spent harvesting winter squash. Many of the plants just up and died due to the high humidity and rain. Our squash probably died of powdery mildew. Although we haven’t had much rain, only a few sporadic showers totaling 1/200 of an inch which is enough to increase our humidity […]
One thing about being self employed is that you make up your own job title. ‘Healthcare Practitioner’ has been the job title we have given ourselves for the last few months. We think of ourselves as this because for half of the year, we provide folks in our community with a box FULL of veggies, […]
Thursday is our favorite farm day of the week all because of Diane! Diane is our yoga instructor who comes to the farm to lead us through an hour long special session geared specifically for farmers. She takes our “season” into consideration so that she can have us stretch those parts of our body that […]
One thing about the lack of rain is that we think our yield for our onions is the best in a couple years. We didn’t harvest gigantic onions like we have in years gone by but the Candy onions are delicious and they are, for the most part, consistently sized. On Thursday we harvested around […]
Carl is back home (THANK GOODNESS) and last week he was able to connect our drip irrigation, and then after drip irrigating our crops for a few hours (these crops being peppers, basil, eggplant, winter squash and melons), it rained almost an inch that evening! In addition, he figured out why our irrigation was not […]
Carl went to Maryland to be with his mom because she just went through brain surgery for hemorrhaging in the brain. Over a month ago, she tripped over a chair in her house, and went to the hospital then and they did CAT scan and an mri (I think). They thought she was fine but […]