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We dug the sweet potatoes

We dug the sweet potatoes

We dug the sweet potatoes!  We have been enjoying a stretch of warm and sunny days.  The soil was finally dry enough to harvest all the sweet potatoes.  What a relief to have that big job done for the year.   The sweet potatoes have been…

But the weather had other plans

But the weather had other plans

This was the week to harvest sweet potatoes.  But the weather had other plans.  We’ve gotten buckets of rain.  It poured on Saturday, then again yesterday.  At the moment, the approximately two tons of sweet potatoes are trapped in the soaking wet ground. It would…

Working on spring, in fall

Working on spring, in fall

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…

Fall like

Fall like

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

We made it!  August is over

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…

Keeping all the plates spinning

Keeping all the plates spinning

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. …

August, Bring it on!

August, Bring it on!

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…

Summer Goings Ons

Summer Goings Ons

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…