August is a month of new beginnings. The greenhouse is filling up with seedlings almost ready to go into the ground. Next week we will direct sow carrots and arugula, radishes and beets. We will transplant kohlrabi and cabbage and broccoli. Throughout all of this…
The heat has rendered by brain into jello, making it a bit hard to focus on writing this newsletter. It is the hottest day of the year so far. But thankfully we are close enough to making it through July for me to proclaim that…
Thank goodness for nightshades! Tomatoes, peppers, eggplant and potatoes are all in the nightshade, or Solanaceae, family. Other, more toxic family members include tobacco and belladonna. The naturally occurring toxin solanine is why eating green potatoes will give you a stomach ache. This family of…
Today Kim, Raquel and Josephine participated in a sweat study. Researchers from the Department of Kinesiology at Mississippi State University are interested in understanding more about how farmers and farm workers in Mississippi respond to the stress of working in the heat. They were here…
Potato bumper crop On Friday we dug the last 5 beds of potatoes. These “Masquerade” potatoes have a two-tone yellow and purple skin and buttery yellow interior like a Yukon Gold. I was worried that with all the rain we had, they might have rotted…
The rain has stopped (at least for now), the heat has arrived, and we are barreling full steam ahead. There is so much to harvest. On Monday we dug the red potatoes. It was a huge relief to find them in good shape after sitting…
Green Beans! On Monday we cut all the green beans. This was the tie-breaker spring for green beans. A few years ago, following many years of not growing beans because harvesting them was too time consuming, we decided to try growing green beans for a…
I did it, you guys! I shaped and wrapped ten beds. When I told Meg how anxious I was about making beds she said, “But Randy makes it look so easy!” That’s because he is a real pro. But I am excited to have acquired,…
