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Heirloom Tomatoes “Not too late” Sale

Due to popular demand, we have more heirloom tomato plants ready for sale, in many interesting varieties. And plenty of peppers! Here is your chance to add a magic heirloom tomato to your garden collection, sneak in one more, or … Continue reading

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Welcome, little calves

An exciting week on the farm. We are very inexperienced with livestock birthing. We are learning! Good thing that these cows like to birth on their own, and don’t want our help. You see she is missing from the herd, … Continue reading

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Happy Mother’s Day on the Farm

Birth on the farm just in time for Mother’s Day. This sweet little calf arrived yesterday (Saturday) afternoon during the Tomato Sale. Katie didn’t even tell me! She wasn’t with the herd at the end of the day, so Phil … Continue reading

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Heirloom Tomato Varieties

Thanks everyone, for a fabulous tomato sale! We cleared out the first planting of tomato plants, I still have a few Brandywine and that’s it. I have a second planting of lots of varieties for sale, ready around Memorial Day … Continue reading

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It’s Tomato Seedling Sale Week!

Six weeks in the greenhouse and these plants are beauties. Over 20 varieties of heirloom tomato plants, for our garden and those of our plant customers. You can come by the farm this week on Friday May 8 or Saturday … Continue reading

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Chick Update

The chicks are three weeks old, so its time for an update. In their first week, they had visitors come to admire the new hatches. Here are CSA members, Heather and Kelsey of the Schwartz family.   Then, with chicks … Continue reading

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The Chicks are here!

All last year, Noah asked for an incubator. He got one for Chanukah! I’m not sure why that is funny, but it is. For three weeks we watched eggs in the incubator, wondering whether baby chicks were growing. Waiting…. Auracana … Continue reading

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Greenhouse Thinnings Salad

I thin the plants in the greenhouse trays. Here is my Greenhouse Thinnings Salad, a greenhouse by-product gourmet treat. When we are out in the garden, the kids know to come running in the greenhouse for “snacks”. I give them … Continue reading

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Garlic Gifts

Garlic shoots please me in April. They are the first green crop in the garden. Since they are planted in autumn, they please like daffodil bulbs, like a spring surprise gift.

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Bee Happy on the Farm

  Phil took a Bee Keeping Class this winter, taught by Steve Collins at LilyPons. The class met at our farm to pick up their bees and learn how to settle the bees in their new home. We had a … Continue reading

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