2012 List of Banished Words
Happy New Year! I hope everyone has recovered by now from their failed New Year’s resolutions. Much like Lake Superior State University does each year with its list of words that need to be banished, we here at Fresh Earth Farms go through a similar exercise to exorcize words that are overused on the farm […]
Bugs and Beavers
Being an organic farm has many challenges. One of the biggest challenges is keeping bugs out of the produce. Being a consumer of organic food I have come to terms with the occasional caterpillar on my broccoli or corn ear worm in my sweet corn. But as a produce producer I prefer that we provide […]
Fresh Earth Farms Newsletter 10-18-2011
First of all I want to thank everyone who came out to the farm to help plant garlic. I felt it was a wonderful time and wish more of you could have enjoyed it with us. Since I realize you all can’t, I thought I would put together a photo montage of the event to […]
Fresh Earth Farms Newsletter 10-11-2011
We are starting the recruiting drive for next season. If you sign-up by the end of October not only do you reserve your shares for next season but you also lock in this year’s price for next year’s produce. How great is that? There is an order form on the web site. I make take […]
Fresh Earth Farms Newsletter 10-4-2011
Looks like we have summer for a few more days this week! The big event of last week was the harvesting of the honey. Dave — my bee partner — came over to assist. It is good to have someone who knows bees and has the right equipment. The first step in harvesting the honey […]
Fresh Earth Farms Newsletter 9-27-2011
I think the farming season is finally getting to me. Maybe it is the lack of highs in the 90s. Maybe it is the 3000+ squash we harvested last week. Maybe it is the thought that there is only five more weeks left this season. But whatever the reason I think I am going nuts. […]
Addendum to Fresh Earth Farms Newsletter 9-20-2011
AmphibianShare I forgot to mention AmphibianShare for this week will be salamanders. Garlic Planting Party I also forgot to mention the Garlic Planting Party scheduled for Saturday October 15th from 10:00 am until we are done. It is a great opportunity to get out in the beautiful fall weather and start the 2012 season off […]
Fresh Earth Farms Newsletter 9-20-2011
Lots of f-words spoken last week including frost and freeze – two things that are never good for farming. But we’ve gone through the drill before. Some years we get very little notice. Other years the weather folks are more clued in to the weather. This year we had a couple of days to prepare, […]
Fresh Earth Farms Newsletter 9-13-2011
I heard the F-word last night. I read it in the paper the other day as well. Seems like a lot of people are using the F-word these days. I don’t know about you but I find it pretty offensive – especially this time of year. I guess I just have to get used to […]