I'm beginning to sound like a broken record, but more rain this week has been taking its toll on the vegetable fields and hay crop. We really need a solid week to dry out, and then a second week to get caught up on cultivating and to get a start on this year's haymaking. The kale … [Read more...] about Full and By Farm: More Rain This Week
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Full and By Farm: Dogged By Heavy Rains
We continue to be dogged by heavy rains here—delaying our seeding, transplanting, weed control and now hay making. We spent a lot of time at the end of last week scrutinizing the weather report on the computer and staring up at the sky to see what was really going to come down. … [Read more...] about Full and By Farm: Dogged By Heavy Rains
Full and By Farm: Rain and Then Some
Three and a half inches of rain answered our needs and then some. It also stopped us in our tracks during this busiest of planting times, postponing lots of seeding, transplanting and weed control till next week. It's still a boggy mess out there in the vegetable fields, the warm … [Read more...] about Full and By Farm: Rain and Then Some
Full and By Farm: Grants, Greens, & Volunteers
We're still glowing from yesterday's news that we are going to receive a grant from New York State for construction of our new pole barn. We're one of 19 farms across the state to win funding (one of three great farms in the North Country). We can now move full-tilt into … [Read more...] about Full and By Farm: Grants, Greens, & Volunteers
Full and By Farm: Three Season in Two Weeks
In the two weeks since I wrote the last farm note I feel like we have lived through three seasons. It's been a wacky start to the growing year—passing straight from the frozen soil of winter to the high eighties of summer and finally retreating to some springlike chilly nights … [Read more...] about Full and By Farm: Three Season in Two Weeks