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How is April almost half over? I’ve been trying to write this update for three weeks now – I had this crazy notion that I was going to send it by the first – ha! We knew this year would be busy, but we didn’t quite remember what full-on start-up feels like, perhaps because we’veContinue reading “April Update”

We are cruising on our 2021 farm plan. Thank goodness we’ve started farms before. We know that this year (and next year, and a little bit the year after) will be a big push. The to do list will always feel immense, the urgency of important infrastructure projects will dominate the priority list, and thereContinue reading “March Update”

We bought a farm. It took 26 months and one failed attempt, but we are now farming permanently at 65 Brookline St, Pepperell, MA. Read more about our farm acquisition here. So, now the work begins. Our plan this year is to: construct 5 high tunnels and 4 caterpillar tunnels, totaling nearly 18,000 square feetContinue reading “In case you hadn’t heard . . .”

It’s the last fall distribution! It came early this year. We started the spring share a week early, maybe two weeks early? And it shifted everything forward. We are grateful to be close to the end, and it’s really the end for us this year. No Winter Share. We just didn’t have enough land toContinue reading “Fall CSA: 5th Distribution”

I love greenhouse growing (in fall, winter and spring). I’m pretty sure it’s because I’m a control freak and I am allowed a little more control than in the field. We have a really nice crop of spinach, lettuce and frisee/escarole we are “banking” for the last distribution (next week). Believe it or not, allContinue reading “Fall CSA: 4th Distribution”

We took it easy last week. The pictures below might look like I’m a great mom and Harvey is a perfect kid, but honestly, snagging a smiling picture is an accomplishment. It was important to take a little time to be one on one with Harvey without trying to also get things done on theContinue reading “Fall CSA: 3rd Distribution”

Harvey and I gathered acorns in our front yard on Sunday. It’s a heavy acorn year, a “mast Year” (I just looked it up, based on a vague memory). Mast years happen every 2-5 years, where oaks make loads of acorns, while other years they make very few. There is no definitive scientific explanation forContinue reading “Fall CSA: 2nd Distribution”

So, I skipped some of my blog posts the last few weeks and just sent some pretty basic emails out directly to the CSA (it takes about 15 extra minutes to post to both WordPress and Constant Contact). Time was tight, not just because of work but because we were trying really hard NOT toContinue reading “SUMMER CSA Weeks 7, 8 and 9”

Let’s do a photo blog today. I can’t remember if we posted about the winter squash – but they are growing! So fast! The oats we seeded in the pathways to help hold soil together and suppress weeds are working wonders. We got to spend a day and half at a friend’s family cabin overContinue reading “Summer CSA: Week 6”

It looks bad, I know, and it is bad for some crops, but honestly, it could be WAY, WAY worse. We luckily had a lot of weeds in the pathways and covers over some of our most tender crops to try and keep flea beetle, leaf minor and root maggots out, so they didn’t getContinue reading “Summer CSA: Week 5”