What's happening around the farm.
Posted in CSA, Vegetables on Jan 31st, 2012
I expect my first sore muscles of 2012 tonight or tomorrow. In the new tunnel I dug two shovel wide 8 inch deep furrows about half the length (so 60 feet) along where some of the tomatoes will go to bury some chicken bedding as fertilizer for them. I want to get that done now [...]
Posted in Chickens, ducks, geese, CSA on Jan 22nd, 2012
Do you want great garden fresh, organically-grown vegetables this summer? Free-range chicken, eggs, and duck raised on Certified Naturally Grown land and feed that does not contain any medications or growth stimulants (other than good food)? Please let us know now. This year members will have the option of picking their shares up on Draper [...]
Posted in CSA on Dec 28th, 2011
I am really looking forward to 2012. It is time for our CSA members to renew and for new members to join. We are adding a City of Plattsburgh pickup location this year, at a member’s house near SUNY. We will still offer the options for full-size and small-size shares, and the option to come [...]
Posted in CSA on Oct 24th, 2011
I look at what is still trying to grow, what needs to be cleaned up, what needs to be harvested and stored, and am ready for the season to end. In some ways we are way ahead of where we have ever been at this time before, but in contrast some things were overlooked or [...]
Posted in CSA, Vegetables on Oct 17th, 2011
I must be getting ancient – time has really flown by this summer and fall. New this week – white sweet potatoes! I planted 100 slips as an experiment (and 800 of the red slips). Both varieties did well. This is a really nice clump – one plant – of the orange [...]
Posted in CSA on Oct 10th, 2011
The IMPORTANT item – Thursday folks please let me know whether you want to pick up your share at the farmers market or here. I will prepack shares for pickup here, with a trade out table as before. The Plattsburgh Winter Farmers Market is 3 to 6, Thursday, at the Plattsburgh Recreation Center, 52 US [...]
Posted in CSA on Oct 3rd, 2011
Remember, pickup will be at the house. 66 Jabez Allen. Averages don’t really tell the story in many things. This year it has been either too wet or too dry. We are definitely wet enough now for a while. I’m starting this Saturday night so it gets done. I just got home from the premiere [...]
Well, on Wednesday, but it has felt like officially fall. That spurs me on to both wrap some things up and start others. The potatoes are all in the walk-in cooler and the area seeded to triticale and Austrian pea cover crop. We will have plenty of potatoes, but it is only about half a [...]
Posted in CSA on Sep 12th, 2011
It was a really hot high of 76 today. Since the 1000 strawberry plants I was expecting last week aren’t being shipped until tomorrow, I hope the heat keeps up. It will also help the cover crops get good root systems for the winter. We focused on finishing harvesting potatoes so I can plant winter [...]
Posted in CSA on Sep 5th, 2011
The rain gave me a bit of a break today. Tony and friends butchered this morning bright and early. The broilers this week are 4 1/2 to 5 pounds. We have smaller (3+ lb) female ducklings and one larger male (5+ lbs) plus duck breasts and legs. Also have some fresh chicken breasts, legs, and [...]
