Category — Gardening

On my way to the farm today, I thought, “I don’t really feel like doing this today.” But then I realized I have had that same thought on other days when going to the farm, but once I get there, there is always work to be done that keeps my busy and I always end [...]

Today on the farm I made my first notable mistake. Charles asked me to harvest the remaining Swiss chard. He wanted it to come up so he could plow that area. “Do you know where the chard is?” he asked. I didn’t. “You’ll see where I was plowing before, it’s to the right of that.”
I [...]

I went on vacation last week and somehow the farm survived without me. Just kidding, my three hours a week do not keep the farm afloat! They’ve survived without me thus far (over seventeen years and counting) and probably didn’t even notice my absence last week.
The real person who keeps the show running is Charles. [...]

I’ve been trying to note differences between gardening practices at the farm and in my home garden. There are many similarities but in a lot of ways the farm has advantages because it’s just so much more land and so many more people working it. For example, on any given week, there are several types [...]

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.

 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 [...]