Don’t forget that summer share forms are due today for Full and By Farm. Meeting this deadline will get you a discount and ensure you a spot (you can still turn your forms in later but space is not guaranteed). Please call today or check in at pick-up if you still have questions. We’re happy to do what we [...]
Full and By Farm: Choosing Seeds
January 26, 2012 by Leave a Comment
I sat down this week to peruse and place the big annual seed order, one of the coziest and most delightful of winter tasks. Last year I nestled in close to a warm fire, with wind and snow whipping against the windows, the view a sheet of pure white. This year, not so much. There [...]
Full and By Farm: “Boy, that’s one good potato.”
December 8, 2011 by Leave a Comment
“Boy, that’s one good potato” is a sentiment expressed around our house a lot lately. It’s been a few weeks since we dug into the bags of russet potatoes and I haven’t wanted to look back since. Moist, firm, waxy, dry and mealy are the terms bandied about in seed catalogues to describe potato varieties. [...]
Full and By Farm: Preparing for Winter
November 23, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Sorry this is so belated, I lost power mid-way through the second paragraph and only recently have had it restored. We were quite surprised early this morning to open the door to Silka, our loving barn cat who wants nothing more in life than to be an indoor cat, sitting on a door stoop piled [...]
Full and By Farm: Fresh Thanksgiving Ingredients
November 17, 2011 by Leave a Comment
With all of the spring like weather it is hard to believe that Thanksgiving is coming up. Since the holiday falls on a Thursday we’re moving pick-up to WEDNESDAY night next week–same time, same place. You can’t find a better farm holiday than Thanksgiving, an entire day devoted to sustaining oneself on northern, winter-time foods. [...]
Full and By Farm: Bonding in the Field
November 10, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Fresh leaves are back this week. We have small, but beautiful, lettuce heads to pull from the field today. I decided to wait one more week on the spinach though, it is as dainty and baby sweet as the earliest spring spinach, but so small that I doubt I can wring a full box out [...]
Full and By Farm: Root Success and Failure
November 3, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Thanks to Elizabeth and the Henderson clan for coming out in the beautiful sunshine Sunday and making quick work of the root harvest. Beets, which grow mostly above ground and seem to always love our farmland are in abundance for the year. As tap roots the carrot crop wasn’t quite as impressive. Tap roots are [...]
Full and By Farm: Fall on the Farm
October 27, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Under a thick layer of wool I finally pulled the tomato stakes yesterday afternoon, prepping that section of field to be turned under with a layer of compost at the end of the week. If the weather holds long enough it should be all set for the early planting of onions seedlings in May. We’re [...]
Full and By Farm: Making Cider, Butter, and Sausage
October 20, 2011 by Leave a Comment
The temperatures are starting to drop a little bit, but the rain is still going strong. I haven’t experienced terribly many Essex falls yet, but to my mind a year with tomatoes in the first week of October was an exceptional thing, an extra little gift of summer for my birthday. As we’re beginning the [...]
Full and By Farm: Rain, Rain Go Away
October 6, 2011 by Leave a Comment
One of the most exciting thing that I’ve seen lately is the seven day forecast. It feels like we are underwater here and desperate for a few blue days to help us dry out. We’re seeing the fall-out of so much rain in the veggie fields. The tops of cabbage and broccoli have brown spots [...]
