It’s “put your head down and power through” season.  I have caught a little time to reflect on the week but I find myself stuck on the minutia.  Big picture perspective is too much to ask right now.  My brain is completely occupied by the…

Every year there is a moment when I go from feeling generally on top of things, to feeling like the farm is a speeding train that has passed me by and I am running to catch up.  And of course I can’t catch up.  That…

Ready or not, summer weather is here.  Wow, is it ever hot this week!  I am not ready for July heat here in the middle of June.  But I am glad that I got the shade cloth on all the structures last week.  The summer…

Welcome to the first week of our Summer CSA!  Although we know summer doesn’t really start until the solstice in late June, the beginning of the month usually marks a distinct change in the garden.  The squash has started to produce fruit, the onions are…

Last week we seeded the cover crop in time for it to get rained in over the weekend.  We seeded an acre of iron and clay cowpeas and sunflowers.   This will grow all summer on a part of the field we wont be using for…

The spring garden is booming.  The hot weather has hustled things along.  Everyone is getting green cabbage this week.  New in the full shares are fennel and beets and the Small Shares should get them next week.  All of the lettuce is ready NOW.  Lettuce…

It feels so good to have field planting underway.  That’s right, we got beds made this week.  Thanks to employees that were willing to come in on their day off, the help of both Randy’s mom and my mom, and a farm pick-up CSA member…

Rain and Contingency Plans We had a big rain on Thursday, a real gully washer.  On Sunday the field had dried out enough for Randy to use the disk harrow.  But one dry day is not enough to prepare the soil and shape beds.  Then…