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 […]
Category Archives: Veggies
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 […]
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 […]
We have been farming for 12 years and it still amazes me the amount of produce that can be grown from such a small amount of seeds. These seeds will provide 100 families with most of their veggies from mid May until the end of October. Each week, throughout our growing season, we are harvesting […]
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 […]
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 […]
It is about time that we finally made ourselves pull the kale and swiss chard out of our greenhouse! These crops fed and nourished us all winter long and into the spring which is why it was so difficult for us to pull these crops up. The kale and swiss chard finally bolted (when a […]
This past Saturday we had our single largest sale day of the season requiring all of us on the farm to be at Market! Since we are selling plants at this point in the season, it took us a lot of time to prepare for market, and I totally underestimated the time to tag and inventory […]
We used our transplanter that plants 2 rows at once which required 4 people: a tractor driver, two people sitting on the transplanter putting plants in the carousel, and one walking behind fixing plants and carrying additional trays to the tractor. Although it went much faster than transplanting by hand, we were required to fix quite […]
We have about completed our seed planning for the 2010 season. Doesn’t it sound like an easy part of farming? What we do is go through catalogs from each of the 20 suppliers who have sent them to us and select varieties and the packet size for the amount of seeds that will meet our […]