We live here in the Appalachians and have plenty of water for irrigating our crops, processing/packing our crops after harvest and for our daily use such as bathing, drinking and washing our clothes. Interesting article of others worries which makes ours seem ridiculous. We worry sometimes that we might have a production gap for our […]
The farm crew recently watched the film Gasland, and after watching this all of us are becoming increasingly scared of the direction that our country is taking in regards to fuel extraction, mostly because the gas mongrels are attempting to extract fuel in places we shouldn’t. After watching the film, Townes checked into what is […]
Every farming season has it’s challenges, and this season our issues are mice, cucumber beetles, and phytophthora/fusarium. Even with all these problems we are still hopeful that we will harvest bountiful CSA shares mostly because we plant extra varieties of veggies for redundancy should we have crop failures. On Monday this past week we spent […]
We love our Warren Wilson piggies because they are so social, mostly because they spend the first few weeks of their life on campus with a lot of loving students, thus receiving all kinds of attention from the time they are born. Some folks ask why we always raise 3 pigs together. The answer is […]
This past week was spent pressure washing landscape plastic for winter squash, unrolling the plastic in the field with each roll covering a bed of our growing area, then covering the edges of the plastic with dirt just so the wind is not apt to carry both the plastic and the plants over the mountain […]
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. […]
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 […]