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I have been feeling preoccupied.  Too preoccupied for summer; sweet, wonderful summer, so late in coming it feels like it is half-way over.  Things like my daughters fall and subsequent head ache, staying on top of our fall planting schedule, making sure our oldest is here or there for all of his recent activities, worries [...]

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  In honor of the longest day of the year, the busy farmer worked his longest day of the year!  We were all tucked in for the night before he came inside, and as I laid down I thought of generations of farmers celebrating so much daylight with dedicated servitude to the land. The kids [...]

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This morning, even though the farmer usually starts harvesting for tomorrow’s CSA and market first thing, we lingered over our cups of coffee talking greenhouses.  This is a topic that often comes up, but it is at this time of year that we think about it most. When we started farming, we used a small [...]

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Hooray!  Today marks the beginning of another CSA season, our fifth.  This week we have been thinking back to our first year, the beginnings of Growing Wild Farm.  We were happy to realize that a third of our members are founding members, folks that have been part of this farm experience since the beginning.  Another [...]

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Busy

photo courtesy of Jim Jaillet That’s what we are, all of us I know; but when it starts to feel like the days are whirling by too fast, I start to feel a real love/hate relationship for this place and e-mail and facebook and the whole world wide web.  Who really has time for it? [...]

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