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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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]