Last week was another productive week on the farm as we seeded 500 pounds of potatoes! Readers, you might wonder why a small farm such as ours plants so many potatoes and alliums? The answer is because those are the only two crops the deer don’t eat, not to mention that we have more farmland […]
We used our transplanter that plants 2 rows at once which required 4 people: a tractor driver, two people sitting on the transplanter putting plants in the carousel, and one walking behind fixing plants and carrying additional trays to the tractor. Although it went much faster than transplanting by hand, we were required to fix quite […]
It is very important that we keep our small farms in business. Please call your senators today and urge them to either amend or oppose S. 510. Clicking on the link will provide you with good talking points when calling your senators! An example letter sent to my senators: RE: S. 510 – FDA Food […]
Last week we had an inch of rain which was just perfect timing for our first succession of transplants to get the much needed water required for them to flourish. During that rain storm, which lasted the entire day last Thursday, we worked in our tomato greenhouse driving T-Posts, with a little help from Arnold, […]
It is suddenly dry and warm, which is what we have been praying for, and that allowed us to work up some ground and transplant the first succession of greens out to the field. Last Friday after transplanting just two beds we became a little worried about our little babies because they wilted so bad […]