Newsletter 7-17-2012
Fine print. It is always in the fine print. This year the fine print seems to be tailored to the potatoes. What fine print am I talking about? The one that mentions farming is risky and by joining you are sharing the risk, blah, blah, blah. In this case we are all sharing the risk […]
Newsletter 7-10-2012
Let’s mix things up a little and start with announcements first. A friend of the farm, Connie Everson, is doing a study of CSA for her thesis at St. Thomas and has asked us to participate. You will receive a survey with your share this week. If you choose to participate please follow the directions […]
Newsletter 7-3-2012
There is no such thing as Independence Day for vegetables, so plan on picking up your produce at your usual place and time on Wednesday. I came across an article on the internet the other day. It was a typical internet article. The goal wasn’t so much to inform the reader but to get the […]
Newsletter 6-26-2012
A quick update on our scallion/green onion experiment. I realize many of you have been anxiously awaiting the preliminary results and I have been a bit remiss in providing said results. My apologies. I feel this would be a good time to fill you all in. But first a bit of background. We undertook an […]
What’s a cubit?
I’m starting to wonder if we embarked on the wrong spring project this year. I was reminded of this when I awoke this morning to yet another round of heavy rain and thunder. As I was listening to all the commotion outside I leaned over to Susan and said, “Looks like I will be gathering […]
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 […]