Getting the Growing Space Ready

We have been getting our field ready for the growing season. We have added amendments and fertilizer to the half an acre we plan on growing on this year. The other 3+ acres will be in a cover crop of…

Spring is Here at the Farm

The return of longer days and warmer weather always makes spring an exciting time. This spring has been particularly thrilling because there are new surprises everyday as we explore our new property. Flower bulbs long ago planted have been popping…

A New Home

Sorry for the radio silence, we have had a lot going on. All good things! At the end of December we purchased a 12 acre property with an old farmhouse, 4 tillable acres, dense woods, and access to the Choptank…

Gorgeous Garlic

This year I planted about 30 pounds of garlic cloves. I chose four varieties to plant: Chesnok Red, German White, German Red, and Elephant garlic. To get the soil ready to plant garlic, I did a light pass of the…

Autumn Equinox

It’s fall y’all! Normally I’m sad to see summer go, personally summer is my favorite season. But this year it is a relief to make it to fall. This summer has been wonderful, we have been super busy harvesting and…

Welcome to the Tomato Jungle

The tomato season is in full effect. Just yesterday I harvested 200 pounds off of 6 rows of heirloom tomatoes. It is hard to believe that at the start of the month I was searching and searching to find just…

Busy Season

It is hard to believe we are already half way through June. Where did May go? After scrolling through my Instagram feed, I have my answer. May brought us dry enough weather to finally prepare our field for planting which…

Seedlings and Spring Weather

We have been busy in the greenhouse starting seeds and potting up seedlings. The greenhouse is really filling up! The majority of the plants in the greenhouse are intended for local gardeners. We grow transplants for our field crops: tomatoes,…

Greenhouse Upgrade

Last year towards the end of the seedling season, a tropical storm blew through Tilghman ripping the plastic off of half of the greenhouse. So my lil’ greenhouse needed all new plastic across the top and on the ends. There…

Seeds and Spreadsheets

For the last month I have been busy doing some of the unseen work of farming … computer stuff. The mundane tasks that any small business owner need to do like updating the website, making sure the sign up forms…

Time To Get the Seed Order In

As I have been working on my crop plan/ seed order this year I decided to up my spreadsheet game. I have always used a series of spreadsheets to make my crop plan but they were pretty basic, mainly just…