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 […]