Gratitude. It’s my medicine for times when I don’t move with ease. For times when I’m still stuck slogging through the mud (literally or metaphorically) despite the fact that it’s almost June. All the rain of late is making the mud a mainstay; I may switch the saying to “May showers bring June flowers.” …
Snow flurries and frost visited us on Monday and Tuesday. Of course, we’d just planted out beds of kale, lettuce, spinach, and chard days earlier during a rare reprieve from the springtime rain. It’s disheartening, snow in May, no matter if it doesn’t stick. It’s disheartening until we walk into the greenhouse. Until …
I wish I could tell you we spend as much time cooking as we do farming, but it’s not true. At least not in spring. One of us is out in the field by 7:00 am, and often back out again after dinner. We balance garden time with toddler time, and more often mix the two …
The first rule of the springtime garden is: don’t work wet soil. By wet, I mean saturated, squishy-squashy or squelchy (very technical terms). If you find your soil in any of the aforementioned states, don’t let the robins, who are out hopping about on the garden beds, fool you into thinking you might just …
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All of the sudden, the season begins. Snow is gone, fields are (mostly) dry, and we’re tucking transplants into soil. Perhaps you’re beginning, too, preparing your garden and starting seeds and dreaming of the harvests to come. Here on the farm, we’re dancing the greenhouse shuffle: moving transplants out to the field, replacing them with newly …
The spring sun and warmth calls for smoothies as well as greens. We tumble frozen berries into our relic of a blender, given to us when my parents upgraded to a Vitamix. And I’m here to tell you: you don’t need the latest and greatest blender to make great smoothies! Seriously, this pea-green solid state blender from …
