we found a farmer!
And by farmer I mean “grower.” We talked with several very qualified, awesome people over the last few months, and in the end we meshed best with Anna, a beginning farmer who lives in the city but who is originally from Ohio. She’ll be posting to the blog now too and can give a better […]
many THANK YOUs to our friends
A lot of people have been helping us out with advice, tools, household goods, funds, farmwork, support, and love. Thank you to all of you!!! But I do want to give specific thank yous to farmers Verena and Simone, who have both graciously helped us with new-guy questions about soil blockers, hardening off, and more. […]
More friends visit the farm!
This weekend our friends Erin and Emily came out to visit and help transplant the strawberries and blueberries we brought from our former rooftop garden in Manhattan. Working with a group is even more fun than being out in the sun alone, and I hope we have visitors every weekend. I think we transplanted just […]
observations so far about our seedling/planting process
The eggplant we seeded in the miniblockers must not have been deep enough, because over half of them managed to pop their roots entirely out of the ground. It was pretty horrifying to see their naked white roots just lying ON TOP of the soil like that. I noticed right away and only 2 of […]
deer fence posts – and the one person post hole digger
HEAVY equipment… hardly, but who would have thought that operating a power tool would be so tiring. this thing was kinda nuts, but it was way better than banging a digging bar into the ground. i drove to home depot this morning – something i fear that i will have to do many more times […]
spring morning
the sun is getting very high in the sky. just a few weeks after the equinox and the sunrise has really shifted position. during the day. during the day the sun is not creeping into the windows of our living room green house nearly as far. you can see the sprouts really straining to reach […]
cult of diesel
So we joined a cult… we bought a diesel car. a vw jetta TDI to be exact. why? well this one gets up to 50 mpg when driven properly. you should be able to run this on bio-diesel which is renewable even with all its byproducts and problems. as joel salatin says, farming is the […]
expanding and experimenting
so our friend and mentor, verena, had this great idea that we should be able to use a bunch of 1-2″ sticks to make fence posts for deer fencing. here are the first few in the ground. i spent an hour pulling various pieces of already fallen wood out of the woods. i then watched […]
Sproutocalypse
Friday night it was 19 degrees out. Today I went and checked on the broccoli, cabbage, and tatsoi we planted under row covers last week. The good news is that their leaves were all green and happy looking. The bad news is that their stems were all shriveled and weird. If you add those two […]
Partial To-Do list for this weekend
It’s going to be chilly this weekend, and Sunday it is going to rain. But we’re moving forward! Today we drove up from the city and stopped at Home Depot on the way. Everything we bought there looked cheap and poorly made, though I am not sure these tools are actually worse quality than what […]
