Tuesday Morning, around 5:30 AM, we were in the house drinking coffee when I heard a horn honking outside. I went to the door and found our neighbor, Jay Green, who said “Wild dogs are killing your hogs”. I yelled to Carl, “Get your gun wild dogs are killing our pigs.”. Carl grabbed his glasses […]
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From around mid May into the first or second week of June we HAVE SO MUCH WORK TO DO. Unlike “Peak Oil”, “Peak Workload” will disappear only to reappear next year at this time. It is at this point in the season when we need to transplant those warm loving plants, those that must stay […]
Pesticides in kids linked to ADHD Click here to read the article about pesticides used on common kid-friendly foods may boost the chances that children will be diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, new research shows.
Last week was another productive week on the farm as we seeded 500 pounds of potatoes! Readers, you might wonder why a small farm such as ours plants so many potatoes and alliums? The answer is because those are the only two crops the deer don’t eat, not to mention that we have more farmland […]
It is very important that we keep our small farms in business. Please call your senators today and urge them to either amend or oppose S. 510. Clicking on the link will provide you with good talking points when calling your senators! An example letter sent to my senators: RE: S. 510 – FDA Food […]
Last week we had an inch of rain which was just perfect timing for our first succession of transplants to get the much needed water required for them to flourish. During that rain storm, which lasted the entire day last Thursday, we worked in our tomato greenhouse driving T-Posts, with a little help from Arnold, […]
It is suddenly dry and warm, which is what we have been praying for, and that allowed us to work up some ground and transplant the first succession of greens out to the field. Last Friday after transplanting just two beds we became a little worried about our little babies because they wilted so bad […]
We are so thankful that our soils dried enough this week allowing us to work up some ground for direct seeding. Direct seeding is when we place the seeds right into the soil out in the fields. We do much more seed starting than direct seeding. We use the term seed starting (growing transplants) for when we […]
With temperatures reaching 52 degrees midday Sunday we were finally able to concrete greenhouse posts in greenhouse #5. Would you believe that this is the first time since December where we had a couple consecutive days reaching these temperatures? Last October Joe, Meagan, Caree and Carl dug 50 holes 2 feet deep for the greenhouse posts and […]