FARM NEWS FROM THE FARMER I’m sitting in line at the butcher this morning, anxious to get back to the farm and find my place in the Tuesday harvest dance. Tuesdays seems to be one of the busiest days on the farm, and it’s the only day of the week the butch processes chickens. It […]
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FARM NEWS FROM THE FARMERS September and October are my favorite months to be in Kentucky. There’s a chill in the air, the sky is clear, and the humidity is low. Everything seems triggered to get it’s job finished before winter. All the weeds are going to seed, providing the farm with lots of beautiful […]
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 […]
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