what a party…

… we took 4 pictures – please share yours so we can put them here: staci’s pix
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straw

let the mulching begin!  a weekend of lots of weeding.  i hope this helps.  our neighbor corey helped us get down several rows of straw.  we will see how that works.
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The Many Powers of Garlic

People may have been on to something when they hung garlic around their necks to ward off vampires. Turns out the pungently odiferous bulb repels a wide variety of pests. In researching a natural way to keep the sheep from harboring worms in their gut, one answer is to feed them garlic. I now cut […]
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Farm Open House + Picnic: YOU ARE INVITED!

Save the date – Saturday, June 26th.  If you haven’t been out to visit yet, now is your chance! The weather is beautiful, the air is clean, and the sheepies are adorable. Picnic time!  More details to follow…
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field pictures!

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Summary from 3 months into the farming venture

Technically we started some seedlings in February… ha!  Too early even if we lived several states south of here. The amount we have learned in such a short time is mind boggling. Most of the seedlings we started super early (February/March) died off over the months.  The ones that survived through planting out are about […]
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bath time!

more on this when we get a working camera and a bit more time.
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Good things growing strong

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Oh, Deer

With the deer fence halfway up, someone decided to give us a warning that halfway wasn’t good enough. … can mean only one thing. Gotta get that fence complete. Thanks for the warning, deer!
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bruce's seeds

so my colleague bruce saved the seeds of his favorite veggies last year and shared a few with us.  we soil blocked a whole bunch of 3 different types of “bruce’s peppers.”  amber and i spent the time of an early bird east village sunday brunch preparing a row for bruce’s squash.  bruce is the […]
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