Wood Boiler Pad (pad is 5′ x 5′) Wood Shed Layout (the shed will be 20′ x 28′) That is our motto these days. Since things aren’t growing we have switched gears to our most current farm project and that being: Installation of a wood boiler for heating our greenhouses. The wood boiler we purchased […]
GREAT NEWS… We were able to get most of our cover crops seeded Friday September 25th. We were hoping to have everything seeded on Thursday but rain came late Thursday afternoon postponing our seeding until Friday. We are thankful that we seeded even though our soils were a little wet because it seems that we […]
Saturday at Market Vanessa and Alex at Full Sun Farm had the most BEAUTIFUL arugula, radishes, kale and baby boc choi. The last couple years at this time we had kale and baby boc choi but the flea beetles and harlequin bugs have been so tenacious this season that our kale is stunted and our […]
I feel a bit lazy these past couple of days. Sunday I didn’t do much but harvest a little squash which aren’t so pretty because the squash bugs are munching on them. We are desperately trying to kill a few bugs so Carl sprayed our crops Sunday while I weeded a little bit of our […]
Terrorists and Thugs Flea Beetle Harlequin Bug Today we spent the afternoon wondering – do we till the broccoli and da cheong under or do we hoe it and try to save it? Our fall crops are looking pretty poor so we aren’t quite sure what to do. Collecting insurance is not an option since […]
The Broccoli box was full of eggplant before I roasted them. Notice how small the yield after roasting them – the yellow bowl – but it will still be tasty during the winter! I used to only freeze eggplant in the form of baba ganoush but this year I am simply freezing pureed eggplant. So […]
The past couple of weeks we have been at peak production with tomatoes, beans and corn! We are lovin’ the tomatoes while splurging on them for breakfast, lunch and dinner. We have also been eating corn almost every day the last couple of weeks. We only harvest 4 times from each succession of corn planted so corn […]
We are excited that this past week we had a bushel of cucumbers left over after market so that we can make pickles for our winter stash. (Last year we sold all cucumbers we grew and are just finishing up pickles made a couple years ago.) We grow slicing cucumbers rather than pickling because people just LOVE slicing […]
Here on the farm our large meal is midday and incredibly important, mainly so that we keep our energy level up, especially since we are busy hoeing, seeding, transplanting, and doing many more chores that I can’t mention because of the lack of disk space the internet, usually we are doing these chores in the […]
We just have too many things to get done in too few sunny days so it seems that we are growing tadpoles! The picture shows the mud puddle next too our barn that is our “frog and toad incubator”. Ok… I’m certainly glad the drought is over and I am dealing with the fact that we just got […]