The squash are our hope for the future: we have hundreds and hundreds of them planted. Delicata, acorn, kuri, butternut, various varieties of pumpkins, not to mention our zucchini, yellow crooknecks, canteloupes and melons. We went big on the winter squash, thinking it a particularly useful crop: since they store so [...]
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July 21, 2008
under attack
If it’s not one thing, it’s another.
Some days, a farmer just feels like she’s under attack. And there’s a good reason for that: she is.
Now before you go judging me, let me say that I’m not a paranoiac, constantly looking for the shadowy Other who’s out to destroy my life. But I’m pretty [...]
