I'm having a little trouble sorting through our records to find when this started, but somewhere around 2010, which would have been our fifth year in Amherst, we started into a new crop rotation.  We thought we had gotten our vegetable production to the scale that...

This week, I took the plunge and made some chicken wings with buffalo sauce from scratch. The results were fantastic. I learned a great trick from the internet: coat the wings in baking powder (along with some other spices) before baking them, and this allows them to...

I am cranking my way through our 2020 financial analysis, and have come across a staggering number: $20,179.25 is the total we spent on credit card fees last year.  You can imagine that if you multiply that number by all of the small businesses in our community, it is...

We always want to do better.  We run a complex enterprise with many moving parts; I've often joked that maybe we should have named this place "Complicated Gifts Farm."  There is always somewhere we could tweak our system to make our lives easier and help us to...

How does one small farm do it's part to combat climate change, while increasing soil productivity and adding resilience to extreme weather?  Many farms are turning to reduced- and no-tillage systems to accomplish the job. In 2020, we decided to take the plunge and go...