A week or so back, Landon and I made the annual trip out to State College, PA for the 2012 Pennsylvania Association of Sustainable Agriculture Conference. The best part of the event is always the camaraderie–2,200 farmers and friends-of-farmers from across the region, swapping stories, celebrating, and commiserating. We got […]
Farming How-To
Landon, Landon’s sister (Aislinn), and I took a visit to the farm yesterday after a long hiatus. We were delighted to find the fields covered in a downy soft coating of buckwheat. Maybe the term “covered” is a little favorable: my first time with the broadcast seeder yielded some patchy […]
Cover Story
Landon spent most of yesterday atop the tractor, sweating bullets in the late-May heat. With my computer on my lap, I’m reminded of the sort of heat machinery can give off. It’s hard to imagine the degrees emitted by that giant engine. (Although his sweat-drenched Red Sox hat gave me […]