All of a sudden, everyone is talking about garlic scapes. A recent issue of a: NEW YORK newspaper  featured an article entitled “The Freshest Tastes of Summer.” Top on their list was the gourmand’s new favorite: the garlic scape. (And at a whopping $6 a bunch!) Apparently garlic scapes are showing up in all of [...]

Time and time again I hear people complaining about the problems they think backyard chickens will bring if allowed into the backyards of their city. Some of the more common complaints that I hear are noise, smell, rodents, disease, and property values. I would like to address each and every one of these complaints one by one.

What does one family do with several heads of lettuce a week? There’s no way to save lettuce for the winter months (while I suppose I could try to dehydrate it I don’t think the results would be edible). Luckily I eat a lot of salad. I’m trying to get my kids to enjoy it [...]

 When I told my friends I’d be blogging about my CSA experience, one of them suggested a future blogging subject…”Beets Again?” When I told some neighbors about the farm, one warned me that at the end of the season it’s just “potatoes, potatoes and more potatoes.”
It’s true that Mother Nature didn’t take our desire for [...]

We joke that the mosquito is the  official “Maine State Bird”. With June comes an invasion, a new generation of insects. And, with all the rain this spring, they will be in record numbers throughout the US. In fact there are over 3,000 species of mosquitoes.  While they feast on  humans, I have read that 1 in 10 [...]

What are you doing this Sunday? Why not show your patriotism and fly a flag! This Sunday, June 14, 2009,  is flag day, a day when everyone is encouraged to fly a flag outside their homes and businesses.
In honor of Flag Day here are a few more interesting pieces of trivia about our great Red, [...]

From Guest Blogger Gina Sampaio, a Community Supported Agriculture Member.
I showed up at the farm last Saturday morning ready to get my three hours for the week in. Another newbie showed up at the same time and we decided to work together in the greenhouse transplanting seedlings. I had brought my iPod and headphones but [...]