Coasting into fall It is time to start coasting into fall.  While we are still busy and there will always be plenty to do, the sense of urgency is waning.  That runaway freight train feeling that defines spring and summer is gone.  It is time…

We did it!  We shaped 40 beds, each 180 feet long, for Spring 2021.  In order for us to plant anything before mid-April, we have to make the beds in the fall.  In spring, the soil is too wet.  It is a huge weight off…

Fall Party Cancelled We are cancelling our Fall Open House Party for this year.  Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are not comfortable inviting a large group of people out to the farm.  We are very sorry to have to cancel an event that we…

This week the shares include kohlrabi.  Kohlrabi is a cousin of cabbage.  Nope, that’s not a root!  It is a bulbous stem.  Peel well and enjoy raw, steamed, stir fried, or roasted.  It is a versatile, delicious and highly underrated vegetable (in my opinion, anyway).…

We started digging sweet potatoes.  Hooray!  Although it arrived over a week ago, the soil has been too wet to try out our new digger.  And while it’s still pretty damp out there, we were able to give it a go early this week.  Monday…

Here a goat, there a goat The other day when I got home from the farmers market the goats were out.  The does, who had been all the way out in the back grazing on a hillside covered with kudzu, had gotten out and wandered…

Cantaloupe Coup The garden is cranking out the goods.  There is a lot to harvest this week, and I am grateful for that.  I am grateful, even if I am a little tired of picking tomatoes. We are in the middle of one of the…

Good-bye Grammy G! Early Tuesday morning my mom hit the road, heading back home to Maine.  She was here for about six weeks and it was a wonderful visit.  Mom spent hours and hours each day playing with Cooper, who adores her.  Because she could…