Monthly Archives: July 2018

Testing watermelons for doneness is an art that we have yet to master. For us, it involves cracking open a lot of melons in the field to make sure we’re reading the cues correctly. It also involves tasting a lot of melons and letting lots of juice drip down our […]

Employee Benefits

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Landon and Frankie spent some time this past week in what Frankie lovingly calls “the blueberry cage”. (She’s not wrong–the blueberry bushes are surrounded on all sides by bird netting.) The two farmers picked blueberries side-by-side, with Landon picking for some house guests and Frankie picking mostly for herself (à […]

The Blueberry Cage

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Heat like this on the farm can be a real slog–constant wardrobe changes, desperate searches for that missing water bottle, and popsicle lunches. We spend a disproportionate part of our day dragging hoses from field to field to keep the irrigation rotated. The other part is spent trying not to […]

It’s Raining Sweat

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When we first started out 8 years ago, garlic scapes were all the rage. Customers, anxious to try their newest scape pesto recipe, would buy heaps and heaps as soon as they hit the market table. But as the novelty of the zany garlic flower wore off, scape season became […]

Let’s make scapes cool again!

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