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This week at the market: Salad mix Head lettuce Baby kale Arugula Winter salad mix Spinach Scallions Radishes Beets Purple-top turnips Bok Choi Escarole Salad turnips Kohlrabi Rainbow chard Kale Collard greens Eggplant Sweet peppers Onions Potatoes...
Check out some pictures from the farm as we transition from summer to fall and see the full harvest list below for this week’s markets! See you this weekend! Farmers Katie & Mike This week at the market: Eggplant Sweet peppers String beans Salad mix Arugula Garlic Onions Potatoes Carrots Beets Rainbow chard Slicing tomatoes Cherry tomatoes Cucumber Summer Squash Basil ...
March into April is always a transformative time on a farm in this area. As you’ll see in these photos, we went from a bare hoop house to an explosion of green and even had time to squeeze in a significant snow storm! Be on the lookout later this week for our first market newsletter in advance of our first day at the Burke farmers market this Saturday, April 14 from 8am-12pm!...
With the cold weather settling in and the days growing shorter and shorter, it isn’t hard to be up with the sun. And as this is the first house we’ve lived in with an east-facing view, we’re learning to appreciate sunrises as much as we already appreciate sunsets! With November somehow already halfway over, now seems like a good time to look back over our photos from the last four months and see how far we’ve come. Enjoy! ...
It’s been a crazy few weeks what with moving, starting to settle in, and beginning work on the land, so apologies for the gap in posting. At this point, we are mostly unpacked in the house and have been concentrating on getting the “big picture” work done outside. So far, we’ve had a neighbor come in to mow the several-feet-high grass and had the trees removed from the field we plan to plant. As we start to live and work on the new property, I thought this would be the perfect time for an initial photo shoot to introduce everyone to our new project. Hopefully by next year, we’ll be...
The time has come- this is the last photo diary from our current garden and next week is our last week at our house. After that, it’s time for West Virginia and the new farm! I’ll keep posting and sharing with you as we get the farm set up. I’m already nervous- it seems like we have more work ahead of us than we can possibly tackle, so we’ll keep you posted as we move forward one project at a time!...
The strange weather continues as we finish up an unusually cool week that immediately followed several 90+ degree days at the end of last week. Still, everything in the garden seems to be happily growing bigger and bigger with this mix of sun and rain. The first garlic scapes are emerging from the garlic plants (more on this next week) and I’m harvesting more kale than even I know what to do with!...
We’ve had a chilly end to the month and it feels like winter is really on its way. This past week we had our first frost. I left the eggplant and tomato plants to fend for themselves. It’s good that I harvested off most of the edible fruit, as both suffered some serious frost damage to their leaves. We’re planning to start the big job of pulling them out this coming weekend. I decided to cover the peppers, which still had much more fruit on them, in order to protect them from the frost and that did the trick! We’ll be able to keep harvesting peppers for a least a little longer....
After a fun trip to Atlanta, it’s back to work in the garden. This month’s photo shoot is certainly looking greener, with leafy greens dominating more and more bed space as cool fall weather sets in. However, I did just start pulling the first carrots, an exciting addition in both taste and color!...
I had to take an unplanned one-week hiatus last week as everyone in our house got sick. As a result, we’re playing a bit of catch-up this week, but at least enjoying some cooler weather!...