Farm News Seems like summer has gone on longer than usual this year, but even though it’s been hot and muggy instead of fair and crisp, mid-September is time to get the big harvests done on the farm. With so many rainy days, that has become more and more difficult, so when two dry days…
Farm News Last week we powered through what we hope is our last heat wave of the season. We capped off a very hot summer with temperatures which put one in a “is this just about over yet?” kind of mood. But the harvest must go on! The crew tried to get into the high…
Farm News Rather than sound like a broken record and complain about the current round of hot, sticky weather, or the fact that our pepper crop is delayed three weeks because the flowers dropped during the super hot July weather, or that our corn ears are on the small side because they developed during the…
Farm News After about 5 weeks of hot and rainy, we’re taking an abrupt turn toward the hot and dry. It’s funny how quick we can go from wishing it would stop raining, to wishing it would start. Maybe someday we can figure out how to get the rain on a 4-day dry, 1-day wet…
Farm News We’ve definitely experienced a case of the soggies for about the last 5 weeks. On Sunday, we took a break from the farm and headed to the Bridgewater Fair, where evidence of excessive rain was everywhere. Our first activity was to help push a minivan stuck in the mud in the parking lot! …
Farm News Looks like another hot and humid week is upon us. It’s been hard to string two dry days together to get the fields dry enough for planting and cultivating, and on Saturday we found ourselves parking the tractor powered transplanter, and getting on our hand and knees in the rain to get…
Farm News A fine case of the hot and muggies has set in, and it almost seems like we are farming on a different planet compared to the dry, dry months of May and June. While it makes weeding and planting – and just generally being in the field – difficult, most crops are doing…
Farm News We know it’s high summer when we are knee deep in tomatoes, and that moment has officially arrived. My taste buds are in heaven from the different ways to dine on these jewelesque spheres … fresh salsa, fresh tomato sauce, bruschetta, gazpacho (as soon as we pluck the first green peppers), and my…
Farm News: “Ode to Sweet Corn” July is flying by, with the usual whirlwind of picking, packing, weeding, planting, and praying that it rains, but only for a day before drying out into some fine summer weather. Since it looks like we have quite a bit of rain to slog through this week, rather than…
Farm News The last few weeks have been full of hot, sweaty days, which generally have the effect of erasing any romantic notions that one may entertain about small scale vegetable farming. It’s tough on people, and on plants, and the only solutions available once the mercury goes past 90 is to irrigate more often…
Farm News, Week 7 For gardeners and market farmers, July is the month that Mother Nature’s minions wake up, yawn and stretch, take a look at all the plants we’ve been plopping into the ground for the last three months, and decide it’s time to get their cut. The numbers of ways a veggie…
Farm News This week’s Farm News is written by Lauren Henderson-Tamowski, who is in her 4th season on the farm. As a key crew member, Lauren has launched and managed our micro greens program this year. Lauren writes: I believe Good food is important. Good, being food that is nutritious, tasty and isn’t ecologically devastating or…
Farm News Last night we received our first irrigation worthy rain in three weeks, so I am sitting down with a sense of relief that we have at least a two day reprieve from irrigating. This is great for our crew, because we have gotten behind on the weeds, and the harvests are starting to…
This week’s newsletter is written by Fort Hill Farm Field Manager Elliott McGann. Elliott joins us for a 7th season of fun, and likes to keep things light in between working like a storm trooper and choreographing the dance of crews and tasks each day. Summer starts this week and fittingly we are in for a…
Farm News Seems like we’ve finally arrived at some Goldilocks weather: not too hot, not too cold, and a little on the dry side. Just in time for peak strawberry production, which should occur this week! Good picking to be had for the next 10 days, but don’t put it off, because strawberry season is…