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...

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...

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 field and get it ready for planting, with some heavy hand labor to plant those tomato plants. 

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...

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...

I had the great pleasure to go in and talk about farming with the Wildwood 6th grade class yesterday.  They are reading the book The Omnivore's Dilemna,  which talks about 4 different food production systems, and talks about the ways they impact our lives and the...