Yearly Archives: 2015

As the season winds down, we just can’t stop daydreaming of Thanksgiving tables piled high with farm-fresh veggies, glistening turkeys, and perfectly-browned pies.  Landon makes excellent pies.  While the food gets all the glory, we all know Thanksgiving’s real magic comes from the company.  Good food tastes all the better when […]

Thankful for You

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  Fall on the farm!  We’ve finally arrived at that point in the season where things really start to slow down, whether we like it or not.  (HINT:  We like it.)  The battle with the weeds is on hiatus until spring, the cover crops are seeded, and the days are […]

The Comforts of Autumn

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Few things make me smile like a fat praying mantis and a compost pile.  Earlier this week, imagine my luck, I got to take in both at once (see left).  The praying mantis population has been delightfully robust all season, and we’ve started noticing some egg sacks popping up around […]

A Thing of Beauty

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The Silver-Laced Wyandotte cuddling up with Landon is nearing her 6-month birthday, so she should be just a few weeks away from laying her very first eggs.  After months of feeding these hens, cleaning their bedding, and moving their chicken tractor to fresh grass, we’re ready for them to start […]

Lay, Lady, Lay

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  We’re just a week or two away from wrapping up a season’s worth of transplanting, and we have an unwieldy tower of plug flats to prove it.  Navigating this pile of 10x20s that once held a farm’s worth of baby produce is like playing the most boring game of […]

The Sweet Spot

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  We’re trying out a lot of new things on the farm this season, but the biggest change is probably the addition of our first official farm employee.  We’re excited to finally introduce you to Joe Painter!  By day, Joe is a hard-working and enthusiastic member of our teeny-tiny farm […]

A Farm Milestone

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With all the peas picked and this season’s strawberries in our rear-view mirror, it’s really starting to feel like summer.  The recent solstice and face-melting temperatures also go a long way in setting the scene.  In just a few weeks time, the summer veggies will make their grand entrance, like […]

An Ensemble Performance

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  When we set out to build a farm five years ago, we pictured bountiful vegetable rows free of plastic mulch.  We didn’t like the idea of laying out a field’s worth of petroleum-intensive plastic, only to throw it away at the the end of the season.  We also felt […]

An Evolving View on Plastic

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  These nodules on the roots of our Austrian winter peas are host to every farmer’s favorite nitrogen-fixing bacteria.  We incorporated the peas (and the nitrogen they store) into the soil a few weeks ago and are now planting peppers, tomatoes, and eggplants into those beds.  As we develop a […]

How do you like them nodules?

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  While the market table suggests a season in its infancy, we’ve been sticking veggies in the ground for about a month and a half.  The greenhouse, meanwhile, has been home to baby plants since the frigid days of February.  Don’t let the harvest fool you–Spring’s decisions have already been […]

Slip Service

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  Each season, we learn something new about navigating the unique needs of spring production.  Last year’s lessons were all about our veggie transplants.  Our greenhouse was too cold and our germination mix too low in fertility to start happy, healthy plants.  We made some tweaks over the course of […]

New Season, New Lessons

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