This week the sweet potatoes went in and the Irish potatoes came out!  Calling them Irish is a bit misleading.  Like all of our squash and beans, potatoes come from the Americas.  Specifically, potatoes come from the Andes where they were domesticated between 7,000 and…

Now that I have thinned a third of a mile of carrots, I feel entitled to subject you to my musings on the topic.  For those who don’t know, thinning refers to pulling out all the plants that are too close together.  Many of the…

It is time to say goodbye to the green leafiness of spring.  This week may be the last for lettuce.  The kale has given up the ghost.  A few lonely turnips and kohlrabi remain.  The chard has slowed down considerably.  The spinach and arugula have…

This week we are practicing an important farmer skill: knowing when to abort the mission, give up, change the plan.  About a month ago, we had three acres of new field plowed for next year’s vegetables.  The wet weather and our busy schedule has kept…

This is the LAST WEEK of the Spring Share.   A big thank you to all our Spring members!  We love being a CSA farm.  Sure, there are downsides – it is stressful to have vegetables sold before they are even in the ground, what with…

Last fall a wise farmer warned me that the steep learning curve of our first year wasn’t going to level out any time soon.  I didn’t believe him.  It had been less of a curve and more of a vertical face as we learned about…

A week ago today the UPS man came with a small 8-inch Styrofoam cube.  Inside was $60 worth of predatory nematodes, shipped overnight from California.  Randy has not disclosed the cost of the shipping and I think perhaps I had better not ask.  Nematodes are…

The universe might be telling us not to grow tomatoes, but we are not listening. Frost bitten tomatoes making a come back. I was so convinced that the frost on the morning of April 20th would be our last that I wasn’t paying any attention last…