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…

So much has been happening on the farm!  Today, all the parts for our new greenhouse and two high tunnels arrived on an 18-wheeler.  Robin and I helped Randy get it all unloaded in just over one sweltering, mid-day hour.   We are super excited to…

I love digging potatoes.  We watch throughout spring as the tops grow, flower, and eventually start to die back.  We hill them twice, mounding soil up around the base of the plant to keep the young potatoes covered and in the dark.  What will we…

Is Rain a Good Thing? We’ve dried out now, but we got a lot of rain last week.  Some things like the rain.  Native plants are adapted to our relatively wet climate, so rain is good for the whole ecosystem.  The pasture needs rain to…