Time to spruce up the brooder; baby chicks are on the way!  This week we ordered 60 Cornish Cross chickens to raise for meat.  Thirty of them should be arriving next week and the others a month later.  With the risk of literally counting…

  Over our morning coffee, Randy told me about a dream he had last night.  He was hoeing his way through the field and the weeds were growing up behind him just as fast as he was hoeing, reaching well over his head.  I was…

Okra and eggplant again?  We understand if you are getting a little tired of summer and its vegetables.  I am pretty tired of summer, too.  When the weather is hot it’s hard to imagine that fall will ever come, but we are still getting ready…

One of the most beautiful moments I had on the farm this week was disking in the buckwheat cover crop.  Sitting on the tractor, the buckwheat reached my shins and was swaying with clusters of little white flowers.  The disk harrowed laid the buckwheat down…

I was talking with my farmer friends at Cooper-Young on Saturday and started a sentence with, “I am kind of a control freak…” and the immediate response from the peanut gallery was a sarcastic, “really?” “no, you?”.  In fact (as you and everyone else probably…

  Tuesday I was hand weeding when Randy stopped at the end of the row I was working on.  “What’s that?”  he asked.  “What’s what?” I answered irritably, already knowing the answer to my question.  He indicated the row I was weeding.  “Sweet potatoes,” I…

  Heirloom tomatoes are the prima donnas of the farm.  They are fussy.  They are high maintenance.  But we put up with them, because they are so vastly superior in taste.  We’ve had a lot of folks turning up at the farmers market who know…

This week we’ve been devoting a lot of energy to keeping the plants, the chickens and the farmers hydrated.  All those pop-up thunderstorms in the forecast must be popping up somewhere else! Things that don’t mind the hot weather include okra, eggplant, and the dragonflies. …