Slowly springing
The forecast for snow showers next week notwithstanding, spring does seem to be inching its way in on the farm. The greenhouse is brimming with trays of cold-hardy crops: onions, leeks, broccoli, kale, mustards, lettuce, cabbage, kohlrabi and chard are all beginning to poke through. The midday sun […]
Draining wet fields
We have a low area of our field into which water settles and remains just below if not on the surface of the soil. We estimate that we have about 1/3 of an acre that we planted last year that was just too wet and needed some help. The amazing thing about being so near […]
CSA Flyer!
We made a CSA flyer! Please help us pass it along. We added a new pick-up location in Park Slope (Thursdays) and a 2nd pick-up night at our Astor Place location (now Mondays and Thursdays). So amazing seeing all the baby sprouts in our greenhouse already.
NOFA-NY Winter Conference
Verena, Lewis, and I are at the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York winter conference in Saratoga Springs this weekend. It has been great hearing presentations (got some ideas for on-farm events and for more efficient CSA distribution!), but the best part has been talking with other farmers one-on-one. Everyone is friendly, approachable, and […]
Growing Heart Farm
It took a year, but we finally came up with a name: Growing Heart Farm. It is a good compromise between the direction Lewis was leaning (community, feeling based names) and the direction I was going (based on physical features of the land or animals or crops on the land). We’ve transfered over most of […]
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 […]
naked farm field = terrifying
We arrived this weekend to see that our farmer neighbor had plowed our field for us as promised. Moving forward we are going to avoid disturbing the soil so deeply, but this first year we decided plowing was the only way to prep the entire grass-covered field in time (the alternative would have been sheet […]
What we're planting for the CSA
I’ve gotten a couple of questions about what all we’re planting this year. Here is a list of the veggies we’ll be planting throughout the season. We’ll probably end up including a couple more, and there is no guarantee a specific crop is going to do well, but the list gives a good idea of […]
shopping local vs. saving money
This week I called somewhere between 5 and 10 places looking for greensand and colloidal phosphate. Based on recommendations from different helpful clerks I went from calling people who had no idea what I was talking about to people who maybe thought they didn’t sell it because you can make explosives out of it (not […]
Mulching, wildflowers, and corn
This weekend has been busy and great! Friday we drove up from the city with Anna (new grower!!!) and Abby, a friend who is going to be extra help at harvest time and who hadn’t been out to see the farm yet. This morning we were joined by our friend Liz as well. We spent […]
