This week we’re thinking about seeding more cover crops, but with little to no rain in the forecast, we have to commit to moving irrigation around in order for it to germinate and grow successfully. We’re also starting to prepare in earnest for colder temperatures. […]
Well, we finally got some rain on Saturday. As welcome as it was, we have a lot of catching up to do, water-wise. Irrigation continues. We’ve gotten cover crop on the field where our onions were this year. It’s coming up nicely. Hopefully it will […]
Week three has us moving irrigation non-stop, catching up on transplanting, dealing with persistent weeds and feeling harvests get heavier and taking up more of harvest days. Summer is almost (officially) here and the plants know it. With daylight hours stretching to their longest of […]
This week Allison and I attended the 2019 New England Fruit and Veg Conference. It included three intensive days of seminars, trade shows, and talking with farmers from all around. We saw many familiar faces along with meeting some great new contacts. Here are some […]
Who else used some of their share veggies to brighten up a holiday meal last week? I know I sure did. One of my favorite things about being the field manager here is the ability to share the harvest with others. Sweet potatoes, butternut squash, […]
Notes from the Field For most of the season you’ve heard about our crew working long hot summer days to bring you the food in each weeks CSA distribution. Now as our season winds down, we’ve been taking the time to reflect, and build on […]
Notes from the Field Our first frosts have come and gone. The more tender crops (tomatoes, husk cherries, tomatillos, peppers, beans and most of the flowers) were damaged by the frost. We were hoping to have some of those veggies for pick your own for […]
This week, we continue to get the farm cleaned up and ready for fall. We spent all morning pulling plastic mulch and drip tape off of the eggplant beds in the “Back 40.” We relocated the landscape fabric in the aisles of those beds into the […]
