There’s something magical about this time of year on the farm. The air smells like freshly turned soil, the greenhouse is bursting with green plants, and the promise of tomatoes is finally taking shape in the field. After weeks of…
We hope everyone’s gardens have survived the heavy rains we recently had. From the two storms our farm received over 6 inches but thanks to our sandy soil everything has soaked in and there is hardly a puddle left. Before…
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…
Like most farmers I build on my experience from year to year with the hopes that this year will be better than the last. So I tend to grow many of the same crops and varieties that performed well in previous…
With all this sunny weather, I’m finally getting the tomatoes in the ground. Last Tuesday I transplanted 650 cherry tomatoes and later in the week I transplanted 370 heirloom tomato seedlings. I still have another hundred or so to get in the…
The weather is keeping us farmers on our toes this spring. Just when I thought sunny skies were here to stay, in blows another storm. Before this current storm is over we will get about an inch of rain, so…
The tomatoes are planted, all one thousand seven hundred feet of them. In the greenhouse, the tomato seedlings a quite big, filling up their trays and reaching for the sky. But once you’re out in the field the seedlings seem…
Spring rush is here, everything needs to be done at the farm and it all should have been done, like last week. April is easily one of the busiest months on the farm. You spend lots of time in the…