What To Plant Now That It Is Summer
Today, June 21st is the official first day of summer and many folks feel like if they have not started their garden yet, it is too late. But don’t worry you are not too late to start your garden or…
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Sweet Potato Slips & Garlic Scape Pesto
Now is the time to plant sweet potato slips. We have a limited supply of slips for the delicious Covington variety available. This is a widely adapted traditional orange sweet potato variety. Copper and rose-colored skin with sweet, smooth, bright…
Greenhouse Improvements
Our tomato seedlings are now available! We have a wide selection of varieties that come in many different shapes, colors, and sizes. Our current selection is just the beginning, we will be adding more varieties as the plants reach the…
Tacos & Seedlings
The greenhouse is filling up. Almost everyday seeds are getting started and tiny seedlings are getting potted up into larger containers. This past week we seeded our second planting of tomatoes. We do multiple successions of our tomatoes so that…
Spring at the Farmers’ Market
Seedlings are ready and I have been at the farmers market for two weeks now. I have a wide range of vegetable seedlings available including a few herbs (dill and cilantro) and flowers (borage, marigolds, nasturtiums, and sunflowers). Right now…
Recipes for September
It’s that time of great agricultural abundance, autumn. A time when I normally have loads of pumpkins, winter squash, and I’m still eating my own farm grown tomatoes. But not this year. Since I’m on a sabbatical from farming, I…
Spring Work
Spring is here … or maybe summer I’m actually wearing shorts as I type this, hello 80 degree weather. This spring my workload looks a little different. I’m not sweating it out in the greenhouse but staring it out, at…
Another Season is Done
Now that it’s the end of the season it seems like eons ago that I was getting the field ready for the beginning of the growing season. Even though it was just 10 months ago that I was starting tomato…
Commemorating the Season
Thursday was a day filled with food, family, and friends. For me, Thanksgiving has always been a celebration of food. During the days leading up to the big feast I search for all the ingredients both in my field, at…
Fall Abundance
I have been harvesting bushels and bushels of pumpkins and gourds. At the farmers’ market you will see the tables in my booth overflowing with these classic autumn symbols. But what you won’t see much of is winter squash. I…