Almost Sweatshirt Season: Week #11 – 8/18/21
Well we’ve hit that point where the crew is ready for the cool times. Just last week I was trying to motivate them through the hot, hot days with a reminder of how soon our hands will be [...]
Riding the Accordion: Week #10 – 8/11/21
The other day I went to water in the greenhouse. I delighted in the brief task. It was a little moment to say hello to the baby plants, watch the droplets fall, hear the fans whir, take a moment [...]
Not Jumping In: Veggie Share Week #9 – 8/4/21
Stress pulls at us farmers – just like it pulls at everyone else. Diseases damage crops we’ve worked hard to produce. Or crops can unexpectedly do so well that suddenly we don’t [...]
Tenacity: Veggie Share Week #8 – 7/28/21
Peppers are a long season crop. We seed them in April in tiny flats with 200 cells per tray. Then we pot them up in larger trays so that the plants get nice and big. Then we harden them off [...]
