This is my third set of blossom photos. Three weeks ago I set a goal to photograph the blossoms of each of our flowering crops this year. The flowers will be coming faster and faster now as we enter summer.
Of course, we usually never see the flowers of a number of crops that we eat before [...]
Entries Tagged as 'peas'
Farm Blossom Series: Set #3, Peas, Raspberries, Thornless Blackberries, Tomatoes, Black Locust
June 1st, 2009 Comments Off
Tags: Black Locust · blossoms · flowers · peas · raspberries · thornless blackberries · tomatoes
What potatoes and raspberries have in common.
May 20th, 2009 Comments Off
It has been several weeks since I wrote a general farm update. Since then we’ve planted, weeded, given our spring school tours, harvested our first crops, started our vegetable starts sales, opened the farmstand, welcomed our first Farm Tots, and signed up more Free Choice CSA members. We’ve been very busy, and pretty much stayed on [...]
Tags: beets · bok choi · carrots · chives · compost · essential oil · Farm Tots · farmstand · frisee · kohlrabi · lettuce · lovage · mint · mustard greens · onions · oregano · peas · plant starts · planting · potatoes · sage · salad turnips · sorrel · summer squash · sweet corn · tarragon · tomatoes
A month of unforgiving deadlines and green releaf.
April 26th, 2009 Comments Off
Here we are already, closing in on the end of April. I haven’t written here in a while, partially because we have been more than busy on the farm working to stay on schedule, and partially because my writing urges have been directed at Twitter. Now that my blog has this spiffy new home, I’ll [...]
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Searching for a silver lining during Rain Calamity Week.
April 2nd, 2009 Comments Off
There’s an old saying: “Inside every cloud there is a silver lining.” I am in the habit of searching out the silver lining, something to keep me focused on the positive, since there are so many ways things can go wrong on the farm.
This week it looked as if the clouds had dumped all their [...]
Tags: collards · compost · crows · flood · hoophouse · kohlrabi · leeks · lettuce · mustard · peas · rain · spinach · Weather