Sunday was a great local food day at Geezer Farm. I decided to invite folks over to pick what they wanted before we had single-digit temperatures last night. I was worried the cold would kill off some of the vegetables and I didn’t want them to go to waste. Yesterday during my first ever pickathon, […]
First Customers
Peg and Fritz Horisk have eaten a lot of vegetables the last 7 years. Peg saw one of my flyers in a doctors office 7 years ago and they have been CSA members ever since. Peg has had several serious health problems over the years and is committed to eating good, clean food to keep […]
Persephone Days
It’s been a challenge learning how to grow vegetables in my hoophouse (an unheated greenhouse). Over the 4 years I’ve had it, I’ve learned how to grow a variety of vegetables through much of the winter. The main thing I learned that helped me was understanding the effects of the persephone days. That is the […]
Mud
This isn’t really breaking news but we’ve had too much rain. Since June we’ve had feet more rain than is normal. It’s made for the toughest year I’ve had in 8 seasons. Tomatoes succumbed to diseases much earlier than normal. Carrots rotted. Lettuce went bad. And for much of the summer it was too wet […]