Thanks to Danielle and Townes, I had both Saturday and Sunday off last week which was the first since mid April. HOORAY! I mentioned to a couple of our CSA members that I was going to have both Saturday and Sunday off and so Jane Thomas asked something like, “What is it like for you […]
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This journal entry is for Trace!!!! Yes, finally I am taking the time to write in our journal and let me tell you why… Because here in the mountains we are having cooler weather, with finally the nighttime temperatures dropping, making for some fabulous sleeping. This helps motivate me in completing my nightly chores such as journal […]
Jack Craft brought to my attention this interesting article on NPR in regards to tomatoes. Our top selling crop for the past several weeks has been both slicing and cherry tomatoes. We harvest our crop ripe and loose a bit of it to cracking. This next week I will try to find time at market […]
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 […]