Author Archives: dathoang

I knew we had a broody hen sitting on a nest but I wasn’t sure how long she’d been sitting by the time I noticed.  Apparently, long enough.  Three little critters.  Nick found them today when he was cleaning out the chicken coop.  Since we’d already run the other chickens out of the coop, we […]

Our garlic has been ready to harvest for a couple of weeks now but I’ve put it off because our lack of rain for a month has made the ground super hard.  Normally I can pull the garlic up without having to dig it out but the first few attempts I made at this last […]

There’s no doubt we’re in the heart of it around the farm this week.  Not only are the summer crops in full production but the last of the spring crops are coming out of ground that needs to be cover cropped and late summer/fall crops need to get in the ground to keep from stalling […]

We’ve been chasing blister beetles around the garden for a few weeks now but did manage to put a hurtin’ on a few of them a couple of nights ago.  While picking cherry tomatoes Wednesday afternoon I heard the bugs before I saw them.  It didn’t take much looking to find them working over the […]

This is what two rows of purple hull peas look like after one doe has spent one night in them. Despite the fact that these are big, beautiful looking plants, we won’t end up getting much off of them.  At the top of each of those stems there used to be a pea pod or […]

Monday morning usually involves cleaning all of the buckets, crates and coolers that we used over the weekend to haul produce and flowers to the different markets.  Not my favorite job but one the Monster Milan enjoys quite a bit.  Who knew a bucket of soapy water would be so entertaining?  Hmmm.  Apparently the makers […]