Pro-Tractor
The season starts next week! Please plan accordingly. Pick-up instructions were sent out this week. If you did not receive them please check your spam folder and if you still don’t find them contact me and I can resend them. Let me know if you have any questions regarding the instructions. I recall speaking with […]
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
A quick farm update, but first an announcement or two… The season will start the week of June 20th. I will be sending out pick-up instructions soon. If you don’t receive them by Wednesday June 15th please check your spam folder, which seems to be where much of my emails end up. If you still […]
Weather-Free
As a follow-up to the last newsletter some of you have asked, “Hey Farmer Chris. Did you resolve the sock six-pack problem? Do you just not wear socks on the seventh day? What a pain.” Great follow-up question. I did in fact solve the sock six-pack problem. I bought seven six-packs. Now I don’t have […]
Squirrel Away
Why do they sell socks in six packs? Don’t manufacturers know there are seven days in the week? Are we supposed to go sockless one day per week to reduce global warming? Same with underwear but with different quantities. Sometimes I see them in packs of four. Sometimes five and occasionally you get six for […]
Spring has Sprung — a Leak!
This week’s update after these brief announcements. Thank you to everyone who didn’t show up to the postponed potato planting party. The lack of attendance at this non-event shows the astuteness of the 2022 membership! And for those who still want to participate in planting potatoes — and I hope there are a lot of […]
No Planting for You!
In case it isn’t obvious, there will be no potato planting party today (Saturday April 30th). It is postponed until better weather.
Irrigation Irritation
Learn about stuff somewhat related to farming, but first here are a few things. The Potato Planting Party is still scheduled for this Saturday but if the weather forecasting people are correct — arguably unlikely considering past performance — it may be too rainy. If there isn’t any rain and the soil is dry enough […]
Protean
To be successful at small scale vegetable farming — at least in my opinion — you must be a protean human. The reason I say this is that I just learned of this word and wanted to remember it by using it in a sentence. It is surprising that I have gone my whole life […]
The Splice of Life
Learn the Fresh Earth Farms method for grafting tomato plants, right after these brief messages. We have added a drop site in Stillwater near Manning Ave just north of Hwy 36. If you have friends or relatives in the area tell them to join the farm! Or if you want to switch to the new […]