What's happening around the farm.
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 [...]
Posted in General on Nov 30th, 2011
The day started inauspiciously – the tractor which died in the field last night when I wanted to load the crates of carrots and bring them up, was still cold dead this morning. Tony recently replaced the battery, thinking that was the problem, but apparently we need alternator or generator work. The day quickly improved [...]
Posted in General on Nov 23rd, 2011
Chickens don’t like snow. They will venture out on packed snow, but really don’t like it when their feet sink in. Usually we start out with a light dusting and they are curious, hesitant, but figure it out. They are still in their summer campers, and usually will spend rainy days underneath the campers. With [...]
Posted in General on Nov 21st, 2011
I used to go to market in a Subaru Legacy wagon. Other vendors would sometimes stop what they were doing when I got to market to come look to see how much I had packed in. I’ve had more space with the RAV4, but it still takes a system to get stuff in, and sometimes [...]
Posted in General on Nov 2nd, 2011
They arrived about 11:30 from Penn Yan. The truck, trailer, and one of the Penn Yan men who works with these hoophouses. We had two helpers, plus Chico Braun and helper Andrew came over, since Chico also had a hoophouse in the trailer. This is VERY different from our other hoophouse. This one had welded [...]
Posted in General on Nov 1st, 2011
I actually end up peeling layers off when the sun is shining and temps are in the 40s. The broccoli plants are so incredibly much healthier now that it has dried out and cooled off. The Napa cabbage and pac choi are maturing. The savoy cabbage, red cabbage, broccoli, cabbages, etc that just hunkered to [...]
Posted in General on Oct 14th, 2011
I seldom feel like I have anything to brag about, and this isn’t really bragging. Rather I am sharing how good it made me feel to have a really nice looking market table last night at the Plattsburgh Winter Farmers Market. I got lots of compliments, but also, this is one of the few times [...]
