Surprise, surprise. The Monster loves picking up eggs. With only seven little old hens left in our flock right now it’s not the biggest nightly chore but it does provide some entertainment. A few weeks ago I thought I was smart and decided to give the chickens a drier nest box and hauled an old […]
Today. This is what things look like as I walk around here today. The tulips. For the most part coming on strong. Mud. We actually created this standing water (on some of our higher ground) and mud but everything else looks just like it right now so I figured I’d throw it in there. The caterpillar […]
Most of yesterday was spent potting up seedlings from the flats used to germinate seeds inside the house into 50-cell plug trays that we hauled out to the caterpillar tunnel. The interns floated in and out throughout the day. I’m happy to say the broccoli and cauliflower all made it through last week’s cold nights with flying colors and welcomed yesterday’s sun. […]
For the last few years, January is when our bedroom gets taken over by seedlings. It’s my germination station! For any seeds that need warmer temps to get them started (pretty much everything we start except lettuce), we start them in trays in the house under florescent lights and then pot them up as they […]
So the day before the broccoli plugs arrived and things started to get busy around here I decided to follow the Monster around the farm for an hour from behind my camera. No interference. Today is rainy and yucky outside so it seemed like a good day to post those pictures. Busy. Busy. Busy.
The second farm we went to yesterday was another neighbor of mine, North Pulaski Farms. My friend Kelly is growing vegetables there on about the same amount of land as Eddie and I, yet has an entirely different operation. He grows under a series of connected high tunnels which allow for extended season of the majority […]
Prior to the emergence of the caterpillar tunnel, I knew the greenhouse would be full this week and was fairly certain the field would be too wet to work in so I planned a few visits to neighboring farms for the interns. I want to give them the opportunity to see how some of my […]
III and I decided to wait until the Monster took a nap to finish the caterpillar tunnel. Working with the wind was hard enough, adding an 18-month old seemed nearly insurmountable. I was extremely pleased with the finished product. With roughly 4-5 hours of work into it and $6 worth of supplies we didn’t have […]
In response to my incessant reminders regarding my need for more greenhouse space (I have started prefacing nearly every sentence with “If I had a bigger greenhouse…”) III decided to build me a caterpillar tunnel. A great article explaining how to do this was in my last Growing for Market magazine. And it just so happened that […]
We live 32 miles from an elephant sanctuary. I thought that was crazy when I first heard about it. I mean how many people in North America live 32 miles from an elephant that is not in a zoo? I guess a whole bunch of my neighbors would fall into that category but I wonder […]