Category Archives: Summer

Homemade Compost and Other Thoughts

By Peter | Published: August 22, 2010
What can I say it’s been a tough summer. The first half of this year – from late April to early July – was pretty smooth sailing. The crops looked and tasted good, we were hitting our revenue goals at the farmers market while more or less managing to keep our sanity. Then the heat came. When it’s [...]
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Gardensquatch

By Peter | Published: July 18, 2010
This rarely sighted creature appeared on a recent Friday morning while we were harvesting. We couldn’t understand much of his subhuman growlings, but he seemed to be ranting about the market for purslane.
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Garlic Harvest

By Peter | Published: June 27, 2010
Well, after waiting and guessing and second-guessing we decided to harvest our garlic. Back in October we planted about 13 beds – or about 650 row feet – of hardneck and softneck garlic. The hardneck variety “Music” faired the best in our trials, it grew vigorously and produced the largest heads. The softneck faired the worst, [...]
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Last Market of the Summer

By Peter | Published: September 20, 2009
Apologies for the repetition of past few posts here. I promise we are doing more than just going to market but for some reason the market is the only place where we always remember to take pictures. Either way the market was enjoyable if a little slow. More substance soon to come…
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Summer Goes…

By Peter | Published: August 25, 2009
How do these few summer months breeze by so fast? We spend all this time planning, preparing and planting then BAM the whole ordeal seems almost over. Anyway these few photos are from our most recent trip to the farmers’ market. Nothing all that exciting except for our first crop of head lettuce (late to the [...]
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