Click on the above picture to see a field with more rocks than ours! My husband is forever complaining about the rocks in our fields, each new season suggesting that we pull all the rocks out of our fields, with me arguing back that it is an impossible task! In the picture it is beautiful […]
Category Archives: Veggies
I have been so focused on the workload required of my husband and I this season because of the folks we hired who did not fulfill their commitment to us, that I felt I was overly negative of the new “me generation”, so I thought I should post about Apprentices that we hired in the past who were very dedicated […]
This has been another year of unreliable help for us. Last year was our first year where our farm help left without notice, and it has happened once again this year. We hired four apprentices in March when we normally have only one with the expectation that 2 of the 4 would stay for the […]
I spent the past two days trying to save our garlic and I’m only a third of the way done. I am trying to remove our rye/clover cover crop from the entire garlic bed – that is the cover crop growing between each clove of garlic, and each clove is planted about 6 inches apart, […]
This weekend we just finished pulling out the spent plants from this years greenhouse crop of peppers, tomatoes, eggplant, cucumbers and basil. We have gotten in the habit each year, normally around mid December, to pull all the spent plants and trellising out of our greenhouse so that we can plant a cover crop. (We […]
It seems that we are at that point in the season, between summer and fall, where our production level is at an all time low for the season. We worry about having enough diversity in our CSA boxes over the next few weeks because we don’t want our CSA members to go hungry! Our plan was to […]
 We’ve never seen such beautiful beets! Probably because this was our first beet harvest in over 4 years. It was our last beet crop that triggered us to seriously consider the “ultimate deer fenceâ€. My parents were were visiting at the time, and upon their arrival we gave them a tour of the crops […]
Partners Lauren and Killion Dun Runn Oft! (They look and talk honest… but why don’t they have integrity to follow through?????) For anyone who has seen the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? you will recognize the spelling of the phrase to “run off”. It did happen. Last night, in the middle of the night, we are guessing […]
It has been a while since I posted. We are still recovering from the devastating freeze we had early April and this week delivered our first CSA box which was much smaller than in previous years; but nevertheless, we delivered and our CSA members are fabulous because they are supporting us through this tough spring […]
We finished the “Ultimate Deer†fencing project last fall and thought that farming would start getting easier after elimiating our crop loss to deer. (We think we have finally fenced out the deer from our fields!) We thought we were on easy street now. How wrong we were. “Easy Street” just doesn’t happen in farming when dealing with […]