A visit with Farmer Roger

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What potatoes and raspberries have in common.

May 20th, 2009 · Comments Off · Crops, Farm Folks, Farm Work

It has been several weeks since I wrote a general farm update. Since then we’ve planted, weeded, given our spring school tours, harvested our first crops, started our vegetable starts sales, opened the farmstand, welcomed our first Farm Tots, and signed up more Free Choice CSA members. We’ve been very busy, and pretty much stayed on [...]

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A month of unforgiving deadlines and green releaf.

April 26th, 2009 · Comments Off · Farm Folks, Farm Work

Here we are already, closing in on the end of April. I haven’t written here in a while, partially because we have been more than busy on the farm working to stay on schedule, and partially because my writing urges have been directed at Twitter. Now that my blog has this spiffy new home, I’ll [...]

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Searching for a silver lining during Rain Calamity Week.

April 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off · Farm Folks, Weather

There’s an old saying: “Inside every cloud there is a silver lining.” I am in the habit of searching out the silver lining, something to keep me focused on the positive, since there are so many ways things can go wrong on the farm. This week it looked as if the clouds had dumped all [...]

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Still waiting for spring to decide it is really here.

March 27th, 2009 · Comments Off · Farm Folks, Weather

Today is a gray & chilly day, with rainstorms forecast for the next couple of days and a cold & wet couple of weeks coming up. The official start of spring was a week ago today. While most of March was cold and wet, we have had some beautiful days. The daffodil buds had been [...]

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