Out in the covercrop
Sunday, May 4th, 2008 Posted in Farm | 2 Comments »Melanie, Demian, and I were out checking the covercrop today to see where it was at in growth. We'll be mowing it down and tilling it in this week. You can see the height on the oats (the grassy looking ...
Ahhh transplanting and diesel
Friday, April 11th, 2008 Posted in Farm, General Randomness | No Comments »Today we had another major plant out. Lettuce, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Cabbage, Bok Choy, and our first sweet Onions of the season. (We do have some overwintered as well). We're trying a sweet onion variety this year being developed here in ...
Beginning Farmers Markets
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 Posted in Farm | 1 Comment »Just a quick note: Blue Fox Farm will be back at the Ashland Farmers Market on April 1st. Ashland Markets are Tuesdays 8:30-1:30 I think we're planning to be at the Grants Pass Market the third week of April- probably the 19th. ...
oh the rain
Friday, March 21st, 2008 Posted in Farm | No Comments »Tomorrow Melanie, Demian, and I are invited to talk with a group of folks that meet here in the Applegate Valley to discuss a topic of their choosing. They've invited us to talk with them about the current state of ...
Plant, plant, irrigate, plant….repeat
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 Posted in Farm | 1 Comment »Finishing up cleaning our irrigation ditches this week. We should have water in the ditches and on to our pond by Wednesday or Thursday, which is good since we'll be planting into the fields this coming week. We'll also be ...
The Season is Shaping Up
Sunday, February 24th, 2008 Posted in Farm | 4 Comments »Transplanted Salad Mix into the hoophouse Friday. That was 30 flats of transplants. Yet, somehow the propagation greenhouse is still bursting at the seams. I think we may have started a few more veggies this spring than in previous years. ...
Let the tilling begin
Thursday, February 14th, 2008 Posted in Farm | 2 Comments »I made the first pass over the first acre we'll be growing on this year with the tiller yesterday. The soil on the new property is beautiful! A really nice sandy loam. Every farmers dream. I plan to go back through ...
Applegate Bridge Update and Fieldwork
Monday, February 11th, 2008 Posted in Farm, General Randomness | No Comments »For the time being they have one lane of traffic open. Which is nice, considering I know quite a few folks that had to make the 40 minute detour today. On more of a farm related subject- I got into the ...
Snow
Friday, February 1st, 2008 Posted in Farm | 3 Comments »We've had a fair amount of snow over the past week. Of course it always melts off the next day, which is nice. Talking with some other farmer friends in the valley I found out that we weren't the only ...
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 ...
