It’s time to order seeds

Seedlings

Seeds! Since Thanksgiving we have been receiving seed catalogs in the mail. We toss some immediately (that hardly seems fair!). Sometimes I wonder how they got our address, why did they choose me, why do they include so many flowers, what were they thinking?

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Meet the Berkshires

Berkshire Pigs

The pigs are mostly Berkshire by breed, and most of them are black. They live in a very old building with unlimited access to the outdoors and are doing remarkably well with the cold and snow. They put their noses to the ground and plow their way through the drifts!

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Thankful for good neighbors

Our tractor has a “sticky” tachometer cable which apparently causes the sensor that mixes air and fuel to not work properly. I called the dealership and they said I could pick up a new cable Monday, which meant that I was about to shovel a very long driveway yesterday morning.

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End of the Fall Season

This fall was so nice for so long I guess winter had to come early. It has been an interesting year. Our first CSA delivery was actually in April and this one is in November, so that is 8 months! One year we did pick spinach for our fall share on Dec. 3–that was the…

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Fall Harvest Update

No big news this week really. The weather has been unseasonably nice! Some have asked how things are growing, but most things are finished growing. With the days shortening there is really no or very little growth, despite the lack of freezing temps. The butterhead and romaine lettuce looked so good as they were growing,…

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October

I love October, most of the time. The colors, the freshness of the morning, the early darkness in the evening. It just tells you that it’s time to slow down. Unfortunately, we need to plug harder and faster to get things done before it really gets cold and wet and frozen! This year we have…

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New high tunnel nearly finished!

The past two weeks have flown by. The big news is that the new high tunnel is a half day from being complete! We need to put in the sliding end wall doors; otherwise, it is finished. The roll-up side gear boxes were installed last Saturday after market, and the ground has been tilled. We…

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Fall season begins

On Monday at noon I ate outside where we are growing fall squash and sweet potatoes. It did seem like a nice fall day for about 3 or 4 hours. We are looking forward to a sunny break soon! We are missing potatoes, carrots and spinach. We are waiting for a dry stretch to see…

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Finished framing the high tunnel

We would like to thank all our summer participants for their involvement in local food! Your support has helped sustain our farm through a challenging season weather-wise, and we hope the food we’ve provided has helped sustain you, as well. This week is the last of the summer share and next week, same time, same…

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Tomatoes

We are in a transition week. We have all our summer help back to school and we have a trickle of college students starting to show up. We have now pulled all the yellow storage onions and have them on wagons or in the greenhouse for curing so they will store for the winter. The…

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