Check out this week’s Essex Farm news from Kristin Kimball's blog: "This week the snow pulled back to reveal the winter-ravaged world. Muck, ruts, bones. A dead frog suspended in the ice at the edge of the pond. Also, a pollywog, alive and swimming in the meltwater. Water … [Read more...] about Essex Farm: Welcome Spring
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Essex Farm: Rat Patrol
Check out this week's Essex Farm news from Kristin Kimball's blog: Every few years the rat population takes a bounce around here, we have one too many sightings of our sleek gray friends in the barn, and we must clamp down. I am on rat patrol this week. Spring traps are set … [Read more...] about Essex Farm: Rat Patrol
Super Joy Field | Kristin Kimball
"This mild, dry weather is the stuff farmers dream of in the spring. The new field, Super Joy, is 95% plowed, and the soil there is so deliciously friable, now that it’s drained, that we can skip the usual steps of secondary tillage – disk, harrow, shape up beds – and fit it out … [Read more...] about Super Joy Field | Kristin Kimball