What's happening around the farm.
Posted in General on Jul 13th, 2011
Driving home from the Lake Placid Market this afternoon I followed gorgeous billowing white clouds. As I got closer to Peru I could see low grey to the northeast and figured we’d be in the rain shadow again. On Arthur Road approaching Route 22 I could see a clear line of rain less than a [...]
Posted in CSA, General, Vegetables on Jun 23rd, 2011
I’d rather have one day or night of good rain, totaling about an inch, and then clear days, but we’ll take some rain any way right now. One of the odd things about this summer is that as wet as it has been, as soon as it is not overly wet it is really really [...]
Posted in General on May 30th, 2011
Welcome to Rehoboth Homestead’s 2011 Farm Fresh Food Club CSA. Here is general logistical information: To keep arithmetic simple, and because most folks will be gone or have a conflict at least once a season, we made the CSA for twenty weeks. There are 21 Tuesdays and 22 Thursdays June through October, so we expect [...]
Posted in General, Vegetables on May 29th, 2011
“Mudding in” is a term farmers use when they are transplanting seedlings into muddy soil. We’d rather have the soil in perfect condition to till up a soft, fluffy bed for new roots to grow into, but when we have to, we poke holes in wet soil and stick plants in. We’ve done a good [...]
For those who don’t know me, my eyeglasses are small, rimless, hard to find on a countertop when I take them off. When I lost them in the field yesterday, and looked last night, I didn’t have much hope of finding them. This morning I drove the golf cart down, parked it, looked off in [...]
Posted in General, Vegetables on May 10th, 2011
We quit early today because we were both exhausted, and tractor accidents happen when you are exhausted. Let’s catch you up. The older half of the hoophouse tomatoes were trellised Friday, a good wet weather job. Tore the rest of the old greens out and weeded. Saturday planted the younger hoophouse tomatoes, and since CSA [...]
Posted in General on Apr 26th, 2011
Found out why the Sugar Snaps weren’t doing as well in the plug trays as the other peas did – there are bugs eating the pea seed. I planted them out, about half a row, Monday before the rain. I did order new seed for later plantings. Also planted out lettuces, Napa cabbage, and pac [...]
Posted in General on Apr 19th, 2011
I spent most of the morning clearing out spinach and salad greens. They were good eating but would have to be slowly picked through to avoid aphids, so the birds relished them. In their place I transplanted some of the hoophouse tomatoes, about half the hoophouse. I’ll plant the rest in a couple weeks. Tomatoes [...]
Posted in General on Apr 18th, 2011
We haven’t planted anything outside yet this spring, but there are lots of seedlings in the hoophouse, waiting for the field to dry enough to prep. Had a good, long day today. Hauled 800 pounds of seed potatoes out of the house entryway, where they had been waking up at about 65 degrees, out to [...]
Posted in Chickens, ducks, geese, General on Apr 15th, 2011
We’ve made lots of progress since the last post, but I haven’t taken many photos so didn’t post. Maybe I’ll catch you up over the weekend. We have a new tractor, with bucket, with forks, 4 wheel drive. Tony couldn’t get the old 2 wheel drive John Deere through the mud to the hen camper [...]
