Vegetable Identification
Here are some pictures of the less-easy-to-identify veggies from this week’s CSA share!
water update
well it has not rained in some time and we are in the middle of a big heat wave. we started out the weekend using our sprinkler setup pumping from our water tank that was pretty much full. On friday evening our well water went murky. we suspect that we might have run it low […]
planting crunch in the heat
a scorcher this weekend, but we still jammed out a 10 hour day on saturday! cory, our neighbor, did a truckload of compost in the rows and transplanted a couple of rows of beets. amber and i focused on row prep, transplanting, and direct seeding. our goal was to get everything for the main season […]
freezer hacking and farm coolers
ok, so i did not find some old freezer for free on the corner, but we successfully completed the ubiquitous freezer hack. we want to be able to store a large quantity of veggies in a fridge that cools things quickly. why? in order to deliver great veggies you want to cool them down as […]
i can't believe that worked II
Last weekend Anna and I were planting beans, and then we ran out. So we planted a giant bag of organic pinto beans we had in the cupboard. And you know what, it totally worked. Also amazing – Our newlywed friends came up and planted 300-lb pumpkin seeds!!!
i can't believe that worked!
A couple of weekends ago we found that our eggplants were covered and flea beetles and most of the leaves were so eaten-through that they were like lace. So, after a little internet research (yikes!) we went out and killed as many of the bugs as we could by hand. We made a few passes […]
bangin!
we have been working really hard… a lot is happening. will work to fill in pix and posts, but the truth is we may have forgotten half of what we have done. a few highlights.: 3 people planted their first seeds expert seed blocking continues to keep us on schedule path cutting to the train […]
wind erosion!
We intend to practice no till agriculture as much as possible, but we had our neighbor plow our field this first year because it was covered in grass and compacted in parts and we needed a jump start. Today the wind was about 25 mph! AAAAHHHH!!! Ha ha ha – I guess you learn a […]
