by Simple Gifts Farm | Apr 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
We had a visit this week from former crew member Caro Rozell, who is now the Education Director for NOFA/Mass and a budding soil scientist extraordinaire. She was out to consult with us on our process for transitioning some plots over to no-till production, which...
by Simple Gifts Farm | Feb 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
I had the pleasure to participate in a “Farmer Drive-in,” organized by NOFA/Mass and hosted by our fabulous state senator Jo Comerford, this week . A number of farmers came in to speak in support of the Healthy Soils Bill that is currently bottled up in...
by Simple Gifts Farm | Jan 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
We are in full planning mode for 2020 Happy New Year from all of us at Simple Gifts Farm! We are excited for the year to come! January is time to make the plan for the coming growing season. As usual, every year is a chance to revisit our vegetable planting plans:...
by Simple Gifts Farm | Dec 27, 2019 | Uncategorized
Happy New Year from all of us at Simple Gifts Farm. We are proud of all that we accomplished in 2019. We would like to celebrate another season of the accomplishments that keep us on a daily, weekly and monthly schedule of guiding the everyday magic that turns...
by Simple Gifts Farm | Oct 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
We love being part of a community farm and connecting you all with our community food supply! You all are the reason we do what we do and we are so grateful for your support. We got a lot of great feedback from the survey and wanted to share with you some of what we...
by Simple Gifts Farm | Sep 6, 2019 | Uncategorized
We spend a lot of time planning out our season in the winter. We have spreadsheets that tell us how many pounds of carrots per bed, and other spreadsheets that tell us how many pounds of carrots we go through in a week. We can then calculate how many beds of carrots...
by Simple Gifts Farm | Aug 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
We had our annual visit from our organic inspector this week. This is a relatively painless, though tedious, process that makes me again wonder why it is that administrative positions are the ones that are considered the top of the heap. Why do we go through the...
by Simple Gifts Farm | Jun 27, 2019 | Uncategorized
Our no-till planting experiment has taken another round; we have now actually planted tomatoes into the no-tilled field! It was clear after spending a day in the heat getting those tomatoes in the ground that we are substituting some heavy tractor work, to till the...
by Simple Gifts Farm | Jun 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
Strawberries, strawberries, strawberries! That’s what we are all about this time of year. We have twice as much ground planted to strawberries (2 acres) as we did last year, which was already twice as much as we had the year before. So along with inviting...
by Simple Gifts Farm | Jun 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
We are embarking on an experiment this year into reducing tillage here on the farm. As many of you may have heard, our agricultural soils are one of the largest potential places to sequester some of our excess atmospheric carbon. One of the techniques that people...
