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 … [Read more...] about Full and By Farm: Fresh Thanksgiving Ingredients
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Full and By Farm: Bonding in the Field
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 … [Read more...] about Full and By Farm: Bonding in the Field
Full and By Farm: Root Success and Failure
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 … [Read more...] about Full and By Farm: Root Success and Failure
Full and By Farm: Fall on the Farm
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 … [Read more...] about Full and By Farm: Fall on the Farm
Full and By Farm: Making Cider, Butter, and Sausage
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. … [Read more...] about Full and By Farm: Making Cider, Butter, and Sausage