http://mountainharvestorganic.com/blog Carl and Julie's Life on the Farm Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:18:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en About a month ago, a few folks here in my little community of Spring Creek, were selected as a “Food Cluster” to represent Slow Food at the Terre Madre event in Turin Italy. Being a small farmer, there is not much money earned annually to fund a trip abroad, so our ... http://mountainharvestorganic.com/blog/?p=688 [caption id="attachment_684" align="aligncenter" width="512" caption="Notice the chicks are starting to have wing bars! "][/caption] [caption id="attachment_686" align="aligncenter" width="388" caption="The pigs are HUGE and love Cantaloupes. They also love our ferminted corn and can't seem to get enough of it. Too bad the succession we are harvesting today isn't ferminted."][/caption] http://mountainharvestorganic.com/blog/?p=683 [caption id="attachment_674" align="aligncenter" width="410" caption="Diane, who makes us feel good each week by helping us to stretch our overworked bodies with yoga, made this beautiful pie with our veggies!"][/caption] Click here for the recipe to make this eggplant, tomato basil pie http://mountainharvestorganic.com/blog/?p=673 The past couple weeks have been spent harvesting winter squash. Many of the plants just up and died due to the high humidity and rain. Our squash probably died of powdery mildew. Although we haven’t had much rain, only a few sporadic showers totaling 1/200 of an inch which is ... http://mountainharvestorganic.com/blog/?p=653 One thing about being self employed is that you make up your own job title. ‘Healthcare Practitioner’ has been the job title we have given ourselves for the last few months. We think of ourselves as this because for half of the year, we provide folks in our ... http://mountainharvestorganic.com/blog/?p=641 Thursday is our favorite farm day of the week all because of Diane! Diane is our yoga instructor who comes to the farm to lead us through an hour long special session geared specifically for farmers. She takes our “season” into consideration so that she can have us ... http://mountainharvestorganic.com/blog/?p=631 One thing about the lack of rain is that we think our yield for our onions is the best in a couple years. We didn’t harvest gigantic onions like we have in years gone by but the Candy onions are delicious and they are, for the most part, consistently ... http://mountainharvestorganic.com/blog/?p=610 Carl is back home (THANK GOODNESS) and last week he was able to connect our drip irrigation, and then after drip irrigating our crops for a few hours (these crops being peppers, basil, eggplant, winter squash and melons), it rained almost an inch that evening! In addition, he ... http://mountainharvestorganic.com/blog/?p=601 Carl went to Maryland to be with his mom because she just went through brain surgery for hemorrhaging in the brain. Over a month ago, she tripped over a chair in her house, and went to the hospital then and they did CAT scan and an mri (I think). They ... http://mountainharvestorganic.com/blog/?p=591 Just yesterday, Carl and I had just finished weeding some bulb fennel and flowers, after which we went up to our trailer around 6:45 PM, when the sky suddenly turned very dark. I was outside petting Kaiser (who is our NOT livestock guardian dog) when I said to Carl ... http://mountainharvestorganic.com/blog/?p=580