It feels as though this full moon past has been one last protest to the summer’s end. It stands to shine on us, even as we sleep, reminding me of the light-filled days that seemed to never end. The 18-hour days are just about over for me now. The darkness is winning again and so […]
My favorite month, September. The temperatures are starting to cool off now and I am reveling. The balloon that has been inflating all summer long is finally beginning to deflate a little. The pressure is letting off we’re even getting a little more sleep now! I love September! We spent the week continuing the green […]
On our small little six acre plot of vegetables, we manage the garden fairly primitively. By primitive, I mean mostly using manual labor to plant, cultivate and harvest the crops. We do have a 75 horse power tractor and a spading machine that we use for tilling up the soil and we have a large […]
We made it half way through with only blessings abound remaining. The weather looks promising with plenty of bearable temperatures, plenty of rain, and harvests flourishing. I probably couldn’t have asked for a more wonderful summer if I had planned it myself. I’m feeling a bit better about things this week as we are catching […]
Zat is zee question! Did you know that we cannot legally say that we are an organic farm? We can’t write it on our advertising material or put it on our farm label. There’s a pretty hefty fine if I get caught doing so too. Last time I checked, it was somewhere in the neighborhood […]
On the home front, the crops are doing quite well, I must confess! We trellised the vibrant, hairy tomatoes for the first time this week. There’s even a few green tomatoes hanging there as a bit of a tease, just dangling like a Christmas tree ornament swaying over your presents two weeks before Christmas is […]
I want to talk briefly about Community Supported Agriculture and what it means to us. CSA farms are becoming a more main-stream way of buying produce, and the past decade has seen the number of CSA farms that exist grow exponentially. There are so many different kinds of CSA farms and the products they offer […]
I think I may have a small case of the farmer blues. Nothing gets you down like an already cool spring topped with 12.5 inches of rain that washes your hard work and top soil down into the valleys below. No, it’s not really that bad, it just takes the bounce out of your step, […]
Welcome to the beginning of the 2008 CSA growing season. Buckle up and prepare yourself for a long ride. We’ll travel through the 2008 Midwestern growing season together eating a very wide variety of produce that can be grown in our area for as long as most of these vegetables can be offered by mother […]
At the end of the growing season, some farmer’s like to say that they are working on ‘putting their gardens to sleep’. When all the harvesting is done there is still work to do to prepare the ground for rest before the onslaught of winter and harsh weather. There is still plastic to be ripped […]