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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
