Iced Kale
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 Posted in Farm | No Comments »Well we all run out of produce from time to time. Which we did. So I conveniently have a field full of overwintering produce. Overwintering....that means sitting there until the spring when it grows again? Well not necessarily. We have ...
Soilblocks aplenty
Friday, January 25th, 2008 Posted in Farm | No Comments »It's that time of the winter when I have to force myself (with the aid of Melanie) to get out there and start making soil blocks again. Considering that we can't plant the seed without them, I generally leave myself ...
Why we have a hard time competing with California Veggie Prices
Thursday, January 24th, 2008 Posted in General Randomness | No Comments »This is how spinach is harvested. According to this article written 2 years back, this machine can harvest 20,000 pounds an hour. That's pretty incredible. It's hard to not want to take my harvest knife and throw it in the ...
Whole Foods Makes a Leap
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 Posted in General Randomness | No Comments »Looks like Whole Foods is changing their bag policy too. Check it out at Treehugger
Chasing the weather
Monday, January 21st, 2008 Posted in Farm | No Comments »It's gonna be a close one. I've been watching the weather over the last week hoping that it would dry out enough, that I can get into the first section of the new field to get some disking done. It's ...
Cool comment on old blog
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 Posted in General Randomness | No Comments »Received this comment today over on the old blog : I hope this doesn't seem strange but I was doing some research on the meaning of baby names & my name on google, and your blog popped up. My parents named ...
Pictures
Friday, January 11th, 2008 Posted in General Randomness | 1 Comment »Still Working on getting pictures sized right to upload. No photoshop makes Chris a dull boy. But I'll get some pictures up soon and hopefully a sidebar photo badge from Zooomr. I have to see if they offer one first. Pictures are ...
Cool idea from Brighter Planet
Friday, January 11th, 2008 Posted in General Randomness | 1 Comment »Well Twitter has come through again for me. My friend Marshall Kirkpatrick just wrote up a quick article on what the folks over at Brighter Planet are doing. Kind of cool. Like Marshall says, "BrighterPlant is a for-profit corporation, but given ...
Seed ordering time!
Friday, January 11th, 2008 Posted in Farm | 3 Comments »We've ordered most of our seed for the 2008 season. It's always exciting to get the seed order in. Makes you feel like the season is inevitable. We try a couple of new seed sources every year. Some of them ...
First Seeds of 2008
Saturday, January 5th, 2008 Posted in Farm | No Comments »Today I tromped out into the rain/snow and made up the first mix of soilmix for 2008. A double batch to plant 30 flats (120 plants per flat) of salad mix that will go into our 30 by 100 foot ...
