Monthly Archives: May 2018

With the ground too wet to work, the transplants are piling up on the hardening off bench and the weeds are making themselves right at home. It’s been a frustrating week for farming, but all these rain clouds have a silver lining: the soggy fields have given us a chance […]

Wet Weather Work

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We often think of onions as being these rugged, hardy things–a paragon of self-sufficiency that can nourish us all winter. In reality, growing onions organically is kind of a pain. The plants don’t grow big enough to block out weeds, so they require a lot of hand-weeding throughout their time […]

Onions Are Wimps

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Our 8th season kicks off this Sunday at Headhouse Market! Can you believe it? Maybe it’s just the warm weather talking, but Landon and I have a good feeling about this one. After last year’s soggy summer, we decided to make some changes around here to mitigate the potential damage […]

Trenches, Mounds, and Figs

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