Yearly Archives: 2020

Turket
On the even years, we invite both my family and Landon’s to a giant farm Thanksgiving. We move all the furniture out of the living room (with the exception of the record player) and stuff the space with people, big and small. It’s a celebration of the harvest and the […]

Plans deferred

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Breath is coming a little easier on the farm these days. With just two markets left this season, we can divide all the plantings in half–one for now, one for later. Next year’s compost is resting in windrows, and our food safety pre-audit with the PA Dept. of Ag went […]

A new day

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So much of small-scale farming involves finding new uses for old things: the broken tent that becomes a canopy for the harvest truck, the abandoned disc harrow scavenged for bed-forming pieces, and the old garage door now used to keep the chickens dry. Even farming itself sometimes feels like an […]

Farm metamorphosis

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I am often amazed by what can be accomplished with a thin sheet of woven fabric. With frosty temperatures in the forecast last week, we took a few moments to cover some cold-sensitive veggies with row cover, including our very last planting of string beans. The beans in the foreground were […]

The magic of row cover

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