Yearly Archives: 2017

Despite all the sweaty t-shirts and sluggish afternoons, the hot weather was a welcome change on the farm. The Big 3 of Summer–peppers, eggplants, and tomatoes–went from pale and shrimpy to seasonally-appropriate nearly overnight. It feels like the Sungolds put out a hundred new blossoms for each upward tick in […]

Hello, Dog Days!

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                          These two pictures have nothing to do with each other, but I figured it’s been a little while since I included a picture of Frankie. She’s getting so big! You know what else is getting big? Our […]

Dream Fig

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We received a lot of valuable feedback in last year’s end-of-season survey, but one takeaway stood out from the rest: you want us to be more adventurous in our variety choices. Traditionally, we’ve focused on varieties that we know grow well–disease-resistant standard bearers with good yield potential. A lot of […]

Sense of Adventure

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This year, we’re making our tomato beds due double duty as lettuce beds. The photo to the left shows the tomato transplants down the center flanked by lettuce on either side. We’ll harvest the lettuce this week before it gets crowded out by the tomato foliage. Generally, we don’t do […]

Double Duty

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It feels like we spent most of last year learning how to farm all over again. With Frankie around, we could no longer solve our problems by just working until we ran out of daylight and soothing our weary muscles with cold beer and ice cream. We had to do […]

Lucky #7

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