Mulching, wildflowers, and corn

This weekend has been busy and great! Friday we drove up from the city with Anna (new grower!!!) and Abby, a friend who is going to be extra help at harvest time and who hadn’t been out to see the farm yet.  This morning we were joined by our friend Liz as well.  We spent […]
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More friends visit the farm!

This weekend our friends Erin and Emily came out to visit and help transplant the strawberries and blueberries we brought from our former rooftop garden in Manhattan.  Working with a group is even more fun than being out in the sun alone, and I hope we have visitors every weekend.  I think we transplanted just […]
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observations so far about our seedling/planting process

The eggplant we seeded in the miniblockers must not have been deep enough, because over half of them managed to pop their roots entirely out of the ground.  It was pretty horrifying to see their naked white roots just lying ON TOP of the soil like that.  I noticed right away and only 2 of […]
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