What's happening around the farm.
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 [...]
Whew. We’ve had worse thunderstorms than Irene. We made a lot of preparations, which paid off. We replaced the bottom boards on the hoophouse which were getting punky, so the sidewall tiedowns would be secure. I also fastened the ends of the sidewall plastic to the endwalls, and twisted the bottom of the sidewalls back [...]
Posted in CSA, Vegetables on Aug 23rd, 2011
The season seems to be changing. Not only are nights cooler, but in the garden the old is coming out and the new is being planted. The bugs get worse instead of better though. The cabbage worms even attacked the broccoli seedlings on tables in the hoophouse. I need to find/buy more storage containers. I [...]
Posted in CSA on Aug 15th, 2011
Didn’t get much harvesting done so tomorrow should be busy, but did clean the garage some. Cleaned garlic. Harvested hoophouse tomatoes. Harvested squash first thing this morning. Hadn’t harvested since Saturday morning, which was only 48 hours, but zucchini went from too small to harvest to oversize. Chickens are 4 1/2 to 5 1/2 lbs [...]
Posted in CSA on Aug 8th, 2011
New this week – more types of tomatoes. The field tomatoes are starting to ripen. Most of the heirlooms are in the field. I planted some extras of the hybrids that are in the hoophouse, but for the most part, if it came out of the field, it is an heirloom, or at least a [...]
Posted in CSA, Vegetables on Aug 1st, 2011
This is week 9 or 10, depending on whether you started as Tuesday or Thursday pickups. Whew – today was a hot one! The farm – things are extremely dry. The brussels sprouts plants especially are wilted this afternoon. I squeezed a Napa to see if had firmed up and was ready to harvest, but [...]
Posted in CSA on Jul 25th, 2011
Caught the disarmingly soft and cuddly looking TOMATO EATING groundhog Sunday morning. No sign of another this morning, but I will keep a close watch for a few days in case he was actually plural. The main difference is having to close the hoophouse at night rather than leaving it open for ventilation. Reminder – [...]
Posted in CSA, Vegetables on Jul 18th, 2011
We haven’t trapped him/her yet, but the evidence is clear. I started closing the hoophouse at night and large tunnels appeared under the west end wall. I was afraid we wouldn’t have enough tomatoes this week for everyone. They aren’t all ripe, but we picked everything with a little orange to protect them from the [...]
Posted in CSA, Vegetables on Jul 11th, 2011
Just as we got everyone to bed for the night I felt a few welcome droplets. It is very lightly sprinkling as I write. I’d love an inch of rain tonight. Unless we get some good rain you probably will not get salad mix. There is LOTs of variety of gorgeous head lettuce, which I [...]
Posted in CSA, Vegetables on Jul 4th, 2011
The first and second snap pea plantings are finally ripening, and the second snow pea planting has started up also. There are several crops that we will have one or two of – I don’t want to say what they are so I don’t disappoint those who don’t get a specific one. There is a [...]
