Nearing the end

November 29, 2018 Market newsletters, Weekly Updates

After a long season of hard work, it’s difficult to believe that we only have two farmers markets left this year! With a heavy freeze last week on Thanksgiving night and temperatures dipping into the mid-teens, almost all of our harvest at this point is from inside of our hoop house, but there is still plenty growing in there! (See below for our full harvest list.) With most of the outdoor beds now done for the season, we’re moving on to mowing those down and putting in the last bit of cover crop. While we might not get much early winter growth off of the cover crop at this point...

Happy Thanksgiving & a tasty recipe!

November 22, 2018 In the Kitchen, Market newsletters, Other recipes, Weekly Updates

Happy Thanksgiving! We hope you all have a wonderful holiday and that, if you’re in our area, you manage to keep warm! We’ve spent much of the early part of this week preparing in various ways for the extreme cold front we have coming through. Temperatures are predicted to drop into the low 20s Wednesday night, not rise above freezing on Thursday, and then drop to a shocking 18 degrees on Thursday night! I’m double- and triple-covering beds in the hoop house and we’ve also taken various measures to try to keep the outside walk-in refrigerator where we store all of our crops post-harvest from dipping below freezing and causing...

Winter storm

November 15, 2018 Market newsletters, Weekly Updates

Weather in November is always a bit of an unknown, but with a significant ice storm in our forecast for Thursday, this week is definitely taking the weather ups and downs to the extreme. In advance of the storm, we’re harvesting off much of the last of our crops that are growing outside of the hoop house, including the bunching kale and collards. Living in a rural area, we are reliant on electricity not only for inside our house, but also for our water which is pumped from our well with an electric pump, so we’ve spent the day preparing for a possible power outage by making sure we will...

Full circle

November 8, 2018 Market newsletters, Weekly Updates

As we move into the fall, it’s really starting to feel like we’ve completed a full year on the farm. For most of the last year, everything we’ve done has been done for the first time on this farm, but over the last few weeks, we’ve started cycling back through tasks we completed at this time last year. Just like last year, we’ve been seeding cover crop to protect beds and preserve soil over the winter. We’ve also covered a large section of beds with a thick silage tarp which will not only protect the beds over winter, but also allow us to get into these beds for the earliest...

Garlic time!

November 1, 2018 Market newsletters, Weekly Updates

Halloween week is always an extra exciting one on the farm as it marks the planting of the next year’s garlic! This Tuesday, we put in about 1,350 cloves of garlic, all planted from the biggest heads that we saved from each of our three varieties when we harvested them this past July. The smaller cloves were planted in a separate section and will be harvested next year as green garlic to further supplement our early spring offerings. The biggest and best of the cloves were planted to provide next year’s full-sized heads of garlic, as well as the seed garlic for 2020. Along with the two varieties of garlic...

Two Feet in the Dirt

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