Two Feet in the Dirt

The up and down weather we’ve experienced all season has made our harvesting less predictable than usual. We plant beds so that when one crop is just ending, a new one is just beginning and generally this works out surprisingly well. This year, however, some things are ahead of schedule and others behind, making the transition from crop to crop less on schedule that we would hope! However, the summer crops seem to be gradually coming into their own despite several fairly chilly stretches since they were planted in mid-May. There are a plethora of green tomatoes on the plants, which are about 4 feet tall at this point. The...

The end of last week felt like a major flashback to 2018, the first year of our farm and the year that basically broke records for rainfall starting in April and running through the entire summer. Last Thursday, I sat in the hoop house while rain cascaded down outside, flooding the farm and causing a small stream to wash through the middle of several beds. We got two inches of rain in one hour! And because apparently that wasn’t enough, we preceded to have unrelentingly heavy rain through the night and the following day, resulting in a total of 5 1/2 inches of rain falling in less that 24 hours,...