A Mighty Wind
It is weather like we’ve had this spring that makes us ask our member to please bear with us as we try to resolve all the problems we are having with our weather control system. Speaking of weather, we’ve had a lot of it lately. A lot more than we’d like. The Thursday night/Friday morning storm was […]
Let the Games Begin!
LET’S GET READY TO RUMMMMBBBBLLLLLLEEEE!!!!!!!!!! VeggieShare starts this week! It has been a struggle to get the farm to this stage this spring. So much to grow, so little time. Eight inches of snow on May 2nd certainly didn’t help. But we made it this far and there is no turning back. This first week […]
Undefeated in the Preseason!
It was nice to have a few volunteers come out to help weed this past week. We appreciate their effort! If you are looking for a reason to enjoy the lovely weather we get here every once in a while think about coming out to the farm. There is always plenty to do. Contact me […]
Take a Mental Health Break from Work Day
Did you know that Monday June 3rd is the first annual “Take a Mental Health Break from Work Day”? As is tradition, TAMHBFWD is always the first Monday in June where the forecast calls for nice weather. With forecast of partly cloudy skies and highs around 70 degrees this will be the best TAMHBFWD ever! […]
Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head
This week’s earworm: “Rain Drops Keep Falling on My Head“. Not a problem if you are lettuce… Just a few quick messages before we get into the meat of the newsletter. Now is the time to make your final decisions on additional items. Just to remind you, we have a Multi-product discount. If you purchase three […]
Repredicting
Ok, time to update my predictions for the season that I made in last week’s newsletter. As you may recall, I thought that some of the transplanted spring crops will be in shorter supply than usual. I need to update this prediction. Why? Because on Saturday and Sunday mornings we had below freezing temperatures here. […]
I Can Plant for Miles and Miles
What has been happening on the farm this week? Transplanting, transplanting, transplanting. I calculated we transplanted 13,760 plants the last two and a half days. That’s the most we have ever transplanted in recorded history (mostly since we have never actually recorded the number before). This would have been a good year to have a […]
Extra Extra, Read All About It
With yesterday’s snowfall I felt it was appropriate to publish an Extra newsletter edition this week. What else is a farmer to do when you get this much snow in May? Here is a picture of the table on the back deck. As you can see we received about eight inches of snow. Here is a picture […]
Under Repair
First a quick apology. As many of you have noticed the weather hasn’t been its usual self these days. My bad. We’ve been experiencing some “glitches” in our weather control system (the WCS 10000) that seems to cause it to randomly reboot. And as you all know, when it reboots it resets to January 1st. […]