We've been selling at the Morgantown Farmers Market since May 3, now Oakland has started! We'll be attending the Oakland market on Wednesdays, the Morgantown one on Saturdays.
Plus, our CSA Vegetable Subscription Service is starting next week (June 10). It's a week early, but we have lots of greens ready now!
Things in the garden are coming along. The tomatoes look good (just took the row cover off some, and there are blooms there!) Charles is working on staking and tying them up today. He has a nasty cold, so he probably didn't get it done.
The sugar snap peas in the tunnel are over Cheryl's head now. We started harvesting them this week. Had around 3 gallons of them for the Saturday market yesterday. Yum!
The strawberries in the tunnel are beautiful! The ones outside are coming along as well. The lettuce outside is doing wonderfully for some reason!
We're hoping for a great season this year! Stop by at the market and say hi!
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Greenhouse Happenings
Wanted to show off our young plants in the greenhouse - they look so lovely!
Some lettuce seedlings - red leaf on top, green leaf on bottom.
Some baby kale seedlings - so cute!
The greenhouse is pretty full!
Some lettuce seedlings - red leaf on top, green leaf on bottom.
Some baby kale seedlings - so cute!
The greenhouse is pretty full!Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Greenhouse is Going & Winter Blues Market
We got our "bare-root" dormant strawberry plants last week, and Charles got them potted up and growing in the greenhouse. Actually, some of them got planted directly into the ground in the tunnel, under row cover (an experiment). So far, so good! Can't wait for some lovely strawberries to start coming on in June and going through the fall.
Beyond the strawberries, we have some greenery starting to show up in the greenhouse. We planted some peas for pea shoots and buckwheat for sprouts - couldn't wait for real food.
We attended the "Winter Blues Market" in Morgantown Monday evening - it was the kickoff event of the WV Small Farms Conference. We took our salsa and hot pepper jelly. We were so pleased at the turnout of vendors and (more importantly) customers! Our customers are the best! The market was a success, and there is talk of trying to do a winter farmers market in Morgantown next winter - maybe once a month or so. Let me know if you have ideas/comments/suggestions for it!
Beyond the strawberries, we have some greenery starting to show up in the greenhouse. We planted some peas for pea shoots and buckwheat for sprouts - couldn't wait for real food.
We attended the "Winter Blues Market" in Morgantown Monday evening - it was the kickoff event of the WV Small Farms Conference. We took our salsa and hot pepper jelly. We were so pleased at the turnout of vendors and (more importantly) customers! Our customers are the best! The market was a success, and there is talk of trying to do a winter farmers market in Morgantown next winter - maybe once a month or so. Let me know if you have ideas/comments/suggestions for it!
Friday, January 23, 2009
Winter reading
A friend lent me (Cheryl) her copy of Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year in Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver. I started it last night. I had gotten to bed a little later than usual, and wanted to just read a few pages then put it down and drift off to sleep.
What was I thinking??????
I couldn't put it down! I kept going until I got to the end of the first chapter! Then, I absolutely forced myself to put it down to get some sleep. (After all I had to work today, and our little girl is a morning person!)
I had heard from so many people that this book is good. Well, I don't know how it ends, but the beginning is right on. This author has a knack for saying what I'm feeling about the whole "Locavore" issue - we should all be one!!!!
So, even with only one chapter under my belt, I wholeheartedly recommend this book. And it's a good time to be reading it - there's snow still on the ground!
Monday, January 19, 2009
Enough snow, we're ready for spring!
Snow, ice, cold (very cold) weather - it's enough to make us think it is winter out there! We've been going through the firewood this last week - temps in the single digits (and below zero).
But, we do have some pea shoots growing in the basement - nice to have a tiny little taste of spring. Charles planted them to see if the seed is viable. These are pretty old seeds, and some were left out in the greenhouse last summer/fall. So they got hot, then cold, and were ignored in a corner on the greenhouse transplanting bench. But nature is wonderful, and at least half the seeds germinated!
The greenhouse is set to keep our strawberry plants from freezing - so it's pretty cold in there too. We'll be firing it up around the end of the month, to start our early plants. Our first market starts Saturday, May 2 in Morgantown. In the spring, when it is still pretty cold and the days are still short, it takes plants longer to mature. So a lettuce that is supposed to be ready in 50 days may take 70 days.
We've ironed out most of the logistics in our new (and improved) CSA Vegetable Subscription Service for 2009. We're making some major changes (some back to the way we started, some new ideas). Watch the website for details - we should be posting them soon and I'll try to remember to do a post here to let you know when we finalize everything.
Our 4-year old loves playing in the snow - and has been "partaking" every chance she gets! So if you drive by the house, you will not see a pristine, glistening, perfect blanket of white snow on our lawn - you will see zillions of little footprints, plus as many snow angels as she can muster the strength to make. (Do we care? NO!)
Hope all is well with you and yours this new year. My New Year's resolution is to post here much more often in 2009. Feel free to "bug" me if you see I have forgotten! In fact, that's the reason I'm writing today - someone "bugged" me last week...you know who you are! ;)
But, we do have some pea shoots growing in the basement - nice to have a tiny little taste of spring. Charles planted them to see if the seed is viable. These are pretty old seeds, and some were left out in the greenhouse last summer/fall. So they got hot, then cold, and were ignored in a corner on the greenhouse transplanting bench. But nature is wonderful, and at least half the seeds germinated!
The greenhouse is set to keep our strawberry plants from freezing - so it's pretty cold in there too. We'll be firing it up around the end of the month, to start our early plants. Our first market starts Saturday, May 2 in Morgantown. In the spring, when it is still pretty cold and the days are still short, it takes plants longer to mature. So a lettuce that is supposed to be ready in 50 days may take 70 days.
We've ironed out most of the logistics in our new (and improved) CSA Vegetable Subscription Service for 2009. We're making some major changes (some back to the way we started, some new ideas). Watch the website for details - we should be posting them soon and I'll try to remember to do a post here to let you know when we finalize everything.
Our 4-year old loves playing in the snow - and has been "partaking" every chance she gets! So if you drive by the house, you will not see a pristine, glistening, perfect blanket of white snow on our lawn - you will see zillions of little footprints, plus as many snow angels as she can muster the strength to make. (Do we care? NO!)
Hope all is well with you and yours this new year. My New Year's resolution is to post here much more often in 2009. Feel free to "bug" me if you see I have forgotten! In fact, that's the reason I'm writing today - someone "bugged" me last week...you know who you are! ;)
Friday, November 21, 2008
Thank goodness for seed catalogs!
We have at least 8-10 inches of snow on the ground - it's cold and white everywhere! Though we did have some broccoli for lunch - picked while it was frozen in the field. It was still pretty good!
With all that cold out there, thank goodness the seed catalogs have been coming. We've gotten about half a dozen of them or so. What lovely pictures of fresh veggies, beautiful flowers, fragrant herbs...makes us dream of next year's market season.
Prices of seeds have gone up this year (haven't they for everything else too?), but not the 50% higher as some folks thought we'd have.
We'll have to select what varieties we want of items we already grow, plus find a few things to experiment with this year! Any requests?
With all that cold out there, thank goodness the seed catalogs have been coming. We've gotten about half a dozen of them or so. What lovely pictures of fresh veggies, beautiful flowers, fragrant herbs...makes us dream of next year's market season.
Prices of seeds have gone up this year (haven't they for everything else too?), but not the 50% higher as some folks thought we'd have.
We'll have to select what varieties we want of items we already grow, plus find a few things to experiment with this year! Any requests?
Monday, November 10, 2008
Fall Happenings at the Farm
This fall we've done pretty well at getting the fields cleaned up. We actually got the garlic planted on Columbus Day (the "official" garlic-planting day).
Charles worked a long time to get the plastic mulch and irrigation tape pulled up from the fields. We keep transitioning further and further away from using the plastic mulch - but we're not quite ready to get rid of all of it yet.
Charles got the cover crops planted last week. (Except the tomato patch - haven't tackled that one yet). Hopefully the rye will sprout this week and will soon start working its soil conserving and soil-building organic matter magic!
We're still eating a little cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli, and kale from the fields. Though they aren't growing very fast with these cold nights! A lot of the broccoli is starting to get a little brown inside the stems - too cold for them we suppose. But the tops and outside of the stems are still pretty good.
Charles has one tunnel ready to plant our summer strawberries - we're trying a different planting scheme this year. We'll be using landscape fabric in the strawberry tunnel to keep weeds from overtaking us!
As always, lots to do at the farm!
Charles worked a long time to get the plastic mulch and irrigation tape pulled up from the fields. We keep transitioning further and further away from using the plastic mulch - but we're not quite ready to get rid of all of it yet.
Charles got the cover crops planted last week. (Except the tomato patch - haven't tackled that one yet). Hopefully the rye will sprout this week and will soon start working its soil conserving and soil-building organic matter magic!
We're still eating a little cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli, and kale from the fields. Though they aren't growing very fast with these cold nights! A lot of the broccoli is starting to get a little brown inside the stems - too cold for them we suppose. But the tops and outside of the stems are still pretty good.
Charles has one tunnel ready to plant our summer strawberries - we're trying a different planting scheme this year. We'll be using landscape fabric in the strawberry tunnel to keep weeds from overtaking us!
As always, lots to do at the farm!
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