Another year gone, leaving everywhere its rich spiced residues: vines, leaves, the uneaten fruits crumbling damply in the shadows, unmattering back from the particular island of this summer, this NOW, that now is nowhere except underfoot, moldering in that black subterranean castle of unobservable mysteries – – -roots and sealed seeds and the wanderings of [...]
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Thumping along
Posted in cycles, farm, farming, newsletter, tagged farming, newsletter, planting, rhythym, seasons on August 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Some weeks of the year are so busy with farm work of all sorts that we have so much to report here. But as the season progresses, that amount of doingness tapers (much to our relief), and the work becomes more steady and sure. This week, the farmer spent most of his time harvesting those [...]
At market and in the farm kitchen this week
Posted in Chard, chickens, cooking, CSA, cycles, farmer's market, farming, flowers, home, local food, newsletter, salad mix, seasonal eating, spring, summer, turnip greens, tagged farming, newsletter, seasons, spring, summer on June 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Pickings were slim this week at our market booth and a few others as the cool weather and gray days were again here more than gone. We could hardly believe that there was so little growth from last week’s harvest to this week’s. This happens in early spring, but the pace of growth usually continues [...]
Worth the wait
Posted in broccoli, challenges, children, CSA, cycles, farm, farmer's market, farming, flowers, gardening, newsletter, pests, spring, summer, tagged csa harvest, farming, mother, newsletter, planting, rhythym, seasons, spring, summer on June 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This is actually a photo from last week’s CSA harvest, but this week’s harvest is much the same, with some blushed leaf lettuce, lacinato kale, and the sweetest, most beautiful green onions as well. The weather this last week, too, has been much the same–cloudy, cool, and wet. But there was last Saturday, a bright, [...]
Working with the weather
Posted in challenges, cycles, farmer's market, farming, gardening, local food, nature, newsletter, seasonal eating, spring, summer, Uncategorized, tagged farming, newsletter, planting, seasons, spring, summer on June 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday morning, we were so thrilled to be greeted by the sun. After such a long and rainy harvest day on Wednesday, we had high hopes for a dry and warm market. Unfortunately, by the time we were setting up for the day, a coolness and cloud cover had returned, and although we stayed dry [...]
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