why farmers don’t vacation…

…at least in the summertime.
Coming back to the field this morning was, erm, ahem, <choke>, a bit of a shock. There was good news, and there was bad news.
I’m a realist. Let’s start with the bad.
First of all, in two weeks, dawn has changed noticeably. Emmett and I arrived on the field at [...]

mysterious moonlight diggers

I can’t think of many things more devastating than leaving your happy, healthy plants in the evening and finding them destroyed the next morning. Destruction can come in many forms: a swarm of cucumber beetles, a broken water pipe, a fast-acting bacterial disease. But one form of ruin is particularly frustrating to me [...]

growing fancy: beautiful baby lettuce

It’s not one hundred percent pest proof, but it’s pretty darn good. While our brassica mix attracts flea and cucumber beetles like none other — which I found interesting, since it’s considerably more spicy and slightly tougher than this mix — our awesome Johnny’s Seeds lettuce mix is surprisingly resilient and mostly beetle-free. [...]