What's happening around the farm.
Posted in Chickens, ducks, geese, Vegetables on Jan 29th, 2010
I went out to the hoophouse at 9:45 this morning and pulled the row cover off to let light, air, and heat into the plants. Outside temp was 5F, inside was 32F. Soil around the edges frozen. Didn’t get back out to harvest until noon – outside was up to 14F, and inside was a [...]
Posted in Bees, Vegetables on Jan 25th, 2010
I had a great time at the NOFA-NY conference. NOFA stands for Northeast Organic Farming Association. The rare forecast for sun tempted me to skip the Friday session by Sally Fallon, but I am so glad I went. If you have not studied the book “Nourishing Traditions” I encourage you to. Warning though, she does [...]
Posted in Vegetables on Jan 18th, 2010
We are getting close to having 10 hours/day of light. That is a magic number for plant growth – they start growing again! The weeds are beginning, so the greens shouldn’t be far behind. There were great photos of our hoophouse in the Press Republican today. The photos were taken in early December – most [...]
Posted in Chickens, ducks, geese, CSA, Vegetables on Jan 9th, 2010
Sunny – the spinach is actually growing well. If I had had more patience I would even have harvested some. I started out digging and transplanting some to space them out better, but will not be surprised it the disturbance causes them to go to seed. I realized I have LOTS of spinach plants, so [...]
Posted in General on Jan 4th, 2010
During the summer and fall I used this blog site for our weekly CSA updates. During the “offseason” we are experimenting with an online order system, and it has its own blog page, which we are updating weekly: plattsburgh.locallygrown.net When I write a blog, I feel like I need to write several good paragraphs, but [...]
