The spring beds are made!  The dry weather has given us time to prepare the soil and shape the beds.  Forty-two beds that are each 180 feet long will give us about a mile and a half to plant.  Once we get some rain and…

We are celebrating this fall-like weather with our first greens harvest today!  CSA members will be getting arugula and an Asian Greens mix with Tokyo Bekana, mizuna, and mustards.  The nights have been cool and the skies have been clear.  The humidity has broken.  How…

We made it!  August is over.  Our Fall season is beginning, even though fall is still officially three weeks away.  We made it through Ida’s rain and wind, grateful that the brunt of the storm skirted us.  The timing wasn’t great – we thought we…

This week small share members are getting “Python” long beans!  We grow these beans in particular to help full that late summer gap when some of the other vegetables (I’m looking at you, tomatoes!) can’t take the heat, humidity, and ever-building pest and disease pressure. …

All day Monday the anxiety sat in the pit of my stomach.  It is August.  August is a big month.  It is when we plant the majority of the fall garden, the crops that will carry us through from late September to January.  Yet summer…

I would like to recant the nice things I said about the rain two weeks ago.  It just hasn’t stopped!  What a wet July.  We prepared half of the beds for the fall and winter garden weeks and weeks ago, but we still haven’t been…

It’s time.  Tomato time.  The tomatoes are pouring in.  Slicing tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes, paste and plum tomatoes, cherry tomatoes.    The tomato room is filling up with stacks upon stacks of harvest crates.  What did we do yesterday?  We picked tomatoes.  What did we do today? …

I have “summer brain”.  It is a condition that afflicts this farmer every July through September.  A sort of mental tunnel vision.  I am sitting down to write the newsletter and my mind is a blank.  The newsletter requires more big picture thinking.  But at…