I've been visiting farms in the area this spring. Here are a few of my favorite photos of Powisset, a community farm in Dover.
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How to Choose a CSA
The most recent Local Harvest newsletter has a very nice article about how to choose a CSA. I've copied the first couple of paragraphs below and supplied a link to the full article. Know Thyself Utterly fantastic idea though it is, community supported agriculture is not for everyone. Deciding whether or not CSA is for … Continue reading How to Choose a CSA
Imbolc
The holiday was, and for many still is, a festival of the hearth and home, and a celebration of the lengthening days and the early signs of spring. Crocuses are coming up in my home garden. Or maybe they are snowdrops. Seedlings are sprouting and seed orders have been placed. Kids and lambs are being … Continue reading Imbolc
Cover Crops
Cover crops help us begin to replace the tons (literally!) of organic matter taken from the fields during the growing season. Tons (again, literally!) of compost will also need to be spread before the next growing season if we are to even approach replenishing the soil. As you may be able to tell from this … Continue reading Cover Crops
Bedtime
We took the last of the tomatoes down today. Moved tomato stakes to their winter resting place. Mowed the pepper and eggplants. Used the disk harrow to chop up the plant debris and get the field ready for winter rye. It was a bit odd, though pleasant, putting the farm to bed on such a … Continue reading Bedtime
October garden
Much of my field is in cover crop now. Oats and field peas are growing where I'll plant first next spring. Winter rye will be sown early next week. Leafy greens that I'm growing for the Winter Share are lovely. Kathy stopped by to take photos. She makes the field look like a piece of … Continue reading October garden
Winter Squash
So much change on the farm in the past three weeks! An oat and field pea cover crop has germinated on about a quarter of the field. It's growing well in beds that hosted winter squash, watermelon, carrots, beets, summer squash and cucumbers this summer. Oats were also undersown in the kale and collard greens … Continue reading Winter Squash
September
September is a bountiful month on this farm. Summer crops like tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, zukes and cukes are still producing fairly well. Our fall and winter crops like napa, bok choy, leeks, purple top turnips, broccoli raab, radicchio, are sizing up and some are being harvested. It's lovely to be surrounded by veggies!We've planted the … Continue reading September
A watched pot never boils
It doesn't matter how many times a day I examine the second planting of tomatoes, they are still green. They are not the desired red, pink, rose, peach, yellow (marbled with red veins), burgundy, or purple. Green, green, green. I vow not to look at them at all tomorrow. Perhaps that will move them along … Continue reading A watched pot never boils
July Farm Update
Lots going on at the farm this past month. Lots of planting, weeding, harvesting, twining up tomatoes, sampling cucumbers, spotting coyote and wild turkeys. Lots and lots of rain.First, the veggie report. Our spring veggies were delicious, if I do say so myself! I grew some new-to-me vegetables, most notably fava beans, hon tsai tsi … Continue reading July Farm Update
Shared Harvest CSA 