FARM NEWS FROM THE FARMERS One question I am asked at least once every market is, “When are you going to have sweet corn?” My usual answer is that I don’t know, because making predictions about all things farm is risky business. Mostly, it’s simply hard to guess how quickly things will ripen, but lately […]

FARM NEWS FROM THE FARMERS As I’ve mentioned before, we’ve learned a lot this year! One thing we’ve been giving some attention lately is how we grade and pack our produce. In the past, Lothar or I did it all. We were the pickers, graders, packers, planters, weeders and marketers. With more to do than […]

FARM NEWS FROM THE FARMERS In my relatively short life on the farm, one thing that I have come to count on is that it gets dry after July 4th, and pretty much stays that way until we get the tail end of some hurricane in September. I don’t want to belabor the oddity of the […]

FARM NEWS FROM THE FARMERS Bryce sold a few cases of produce to the Good Foods Co-op in Lexington today and is working on a couple other wholesale opportunities. Becoming certified organic has made a difference in the markets that are open to us…it’s made our goal more realistic: to have a financially viable operation […]

FARM NEWS FROM THE FARMERS We’re now officially USDA Certified Organic. It’s been quite the trying experience to get all of our ducks in a row to complete the application process. We’ve provided field histories, financial records, and filled out lots of paper work to get the process going so we are very excited and […]

FARM NEWS FROM THE FARMERS Waiting for tomatoes to ripen is like waiting for the pot to boil. We’ve been staring at these tomatoes for a while now, and in our distraction this week with some baby chicks arriving, we didn’t look at them for a couple days. Now we’ve got ripe tomatoes and happy […]