Despite last night’s cold and sleet, the planning and planting continues. With sun and 60 degrees on Thursday I planted our third round of beautiful Napoli carrots. Carrots have been a huge hit in the Farmshare baskets for the last two years so this year we doubled down with large succession plantings hoping to see […]
Category Archives: Rattle’s Garden
03
Sep
Sep
Last week our new high tunnel arrived on a truck. This week we started putting it together. Luckily for us, Robert has access to survey equipment through his job. Over the years he has surveyed all over our farm. Our project began with him using this equipment to drop pin flags I the ground where […]
07
Feb
Feb
For the first six years that we kept a flock of laying hens they roosted at night in a permanent coop and roamed during the day on about half an acre of ground fenced in around that coop. For six years, morning and night the chicken coop had to be opened and closed. When we […]
27
Jan
Jan
Last week I had a load of compost delivered from American Composting. This load will be used to top off the beds in the existing high tunnels and to build beds for the new tunnel we will be putting up over the next few months. It serves a dual purpose of being entertainment for two […]
01
Jan
Jan
I’ve fallen off the social media radar completely during the month of December. With beautiful December days, here is why…
28
Aug
Aug
This spring I was excited to accept a position on the advisory board for a multi-farm cooperative CSA called Foodshed Farms. Due to the timing of when we became involved in this program, and the size that our own Farmshare had grown this summer, we did not start producing vegetables for Foodshed Farms until late […]
04
Jan
Jan
I decided recently that over the last ten years I (unknowingly) became an egg snob. Shortly after getting married I acquired my first laying hens. At first I simply no longer needed to buy eggs from the store. Before long though I made a conscious decision that I WOULD not buy eggs from the store. […]
16
Dec
Dec
I’m counting on the fact that so many of my friends are dog lovers and will understand this. Please share. My husband and I are dog people. That might have been the first thing we ever had in common. While my husband is a dog person though, he has merely put up with my need […]
01
Dec
Dec
These are a few of my favorite pictures of our market booth at the Hillcrest Farmers Market from the summer. While I’m pretty good about getting them posted to Facebook, I need to do a better job of getting them on here for those that don’t use Facebook! […]
07
Aug
Aug
With the end of the CSA season and a trip to Iowa for a little vacation under my belt, I’m hoping things have slowed down enough for me to do a better job of keeping this blog up to date. With that said though, I’ll be realistic, life happens. I’m excited about something that has […]