Newsletter 6-12-2012
Not much time to write about the farm so lets get to the important information first. The VeggieShare season starts Wednesday June 13th. We had a few people make a test run to the farm last week. Hopefully nobody made the same mistake at the drop sites. Plan to pick up your produce at your […]
Newsletter 5-26-12
Our indoor farming space is now operational. The tomatoes have been planted. The drip lines are run. The trellis strings are hung. Now we need the plants to grow and produce fruit. I’m looking forward to seeing how this experiment works! Why is it that some expressions that use the same words in the same […]
Newsletter 5-19-2012
Finally. We have finished the new hoop house. It was quite the project fraught with intrigue, peril and danger. The intrigue was in trying to figure out how to assemble it. The peril and danger came when we were putting the plastic on the roof. We tried to pick a calm day but they don’t […]
Newsletter 5-3-2012
Since we have been completely unsuccessful in our invention of a weather control system we felt maybe we should focus our efforts in another direction. And the direction we are choosing is indoors. Yep. We are moving the farm indoors. To be a bit more clear, we are moving a small piece of the farm […]
…But I Play One on TV
I’m not usually one to toot my own horn. I’m an incredibly humble person. The most humble person I know. In fact I would put money down that there isn’t anyone as humble as I am. I am the humblest person in the whole world and darn proud of it. But occasionally when I hit […]
Risky Business
Farming is risky. Risky in many ways. Of course there are the obvious risks associated with nature: weather, pests, etc. as well as the financial risks of associating your livelihood to the whims of said nature. But it is also physically risky. Just do a Google on the most dangerous jobs in America and you […]
Invasive Species
This past week I spent some significant time learning about exotic, invasive species. Invasive species are non-native pests that make their way across the vast oceans to wreck havoc on us unfortunate farmers here in America. These pests have no natural predators here so they tend to multiply quickly and do a lot of damage […]
Fresh Earth Farms Newsletter 2-14-2012
Happy Valentines Day! Exciting news here on the farm. Over the last few months I have been speaking with a local small orchard located in Afton – Elm Tree Farm. The purpose of our discussions was to figure out how we can work together. It seems like a logical fit. We grow veggies, they grow […]
Biggest Pest Problem
I thought that I would share this picture with you. It is a picture of our biggest pest problem. It isn’t our biggest problem pest – that would be squash bugs, or maybe cucumber beetles, or flea beetles, or potato beetles – but it certainly is our biggest pest. Last season it had more than […]