What's happening around the farm.
Posted in General on Apr 26th, 2012
Lots of good news, at least from our end. First, we are at the same level of membership as we had last year, and are continuing to get interest. We are within a couple hundred dollars of having the CSA contribute $30,000 to our sales this year (which is why we have to sell at [...]
Posted in Chickens, ducks, geese, CSA, General, Vegetables on Apr 18th, 2012
“Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing that it doesn’t belong in a fruit salad.” I don’t know the origin of this statement. I got it off another farmer’s email. It’s been a busy week, though it doesn’t sound like much. I have about half the potatoes planted. My goal, [...]
Posted in CSA, General, Vegetables on Apr 4th, 2012
Sunshine is nice. Growing plants is a solar activity. The hoophouses really are incredible solar collectors. Even on overcast days the hoophouse will get 10 to 20 degrees warmer than outside. (In the summer we roll the sides up and with a nice breeze it is cooler inside than outside.) It has been too warm [...]
Posted in Chickens, ducks, geese, CSA, General, Recipes, Vegetables on Mar 30th, 2012
First Mussie is setting. Our first mussie is firmly setting. Another is keeping eggs warm at night and getting ready to set firm. How can I tell? For one thing, she stays in the nest. They do need to get out once or twice a day, but anytime I look, she’s on the nest. I [...]
Posted in General on Feb 28th, 2012
Ladybugs?? If you have ladybugs in your house you want to get rid of, bring them to me please. A couple weeks ago I noticed a lot of them in one room but got busy and didn’t collect them. I went looking today and most were dead on the floor. I did collect some live [...]
Folks ask what we do this time of you, so here is a recap of last week: What a gorgeous day Monday a week ago was. The plants have grown! I cleared part of the hen house out and took 14 5-gallon buckets of bedding (peat moss and manure) down and put in the tomato [...]
Posted in General on Dec 21st, 2011
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. As usual consider this an Epiphany letter. Beth just can’t get her mind into it until things slow after Christmas. Beth took a week off after Christmas to visit Heather and family. She was fortunate to be picked up at the airport by and have dinner with niece Julie [...]
Posted in General on Dec 21st, 2011
Many of you ask how my life changes in the winter. Monday was the first weekday that I didn’t have a market or market to get ready for AND couldn’t do much outside. I say “much” because I could pick up and pack away summer chicken waterers and various other things that could be put [...]
Posted in General on Dec 13th, 2011
Things are looking pretty good for Thursday. I washed and packed carrots, potatoes, celeriac, kohlrabi, turnips, sweet potatoes, etc Sunday afternoon and Monday morning and harvested leeks (left them with dirty roots soaking in some water) and brussels sprouts since it may rain Thursday morning. Thursday should be warm enough to harvest salad mixes and [...]
Posted in General on Dec 7th, 2011
Sure glad we got the carrots out. At this time of year, the plants (where there are plants) don’t suck much water up so the ground stays wet. We gave up on having the clearing and shaping we expected to have done in September and Tuesday brought the bees back from friends who had been [...]
