Farming Notes

I washed bins then harvested tatsuyoi, basil, tomatoes, and butternut squash. We weeded lettuce with stirrup hoe and started deconstructing tomato trellises as well. I also spend some head cycles coming up with a way to frame feedback coming from natural systems, loosely using signal processing and potential analysis.

19 min read   ·   September 19, 2025   ·   11 visuals

We harvested eggplants, peppers, and arugula (a.k.a. rocket) then packed up for deliveries and the farmer's market. I also contemplated my future a lot while listening to the sounds of the field.

15 min read   ·   September 18, 2025   ·   6 visuals

We harvested tomatoes, gourds, mizuna, and bok choy then had lessons on tilling with an Athens 76 discer harrowing attachment.

25 min read   ·   September 16, 2025   ·   13 visuals

We harvested mizuna, hot peppers, sunflowers, and squash, and cleaned onions for this week's CSA. I also started development on a mobile app for in-field captures, notes, and observations.

19 min read   ·   September 15, 2025   ·   17 visuals

We harvested eggplant, basil, and squash, then worked on adjustments to fencing to protect the fall crops from deer. As I round the corner on my first full season, I feel like I can understand better why we do certain things throughout the year at the times we do them.

21 min read   ·   September 11, 2025   ·   7 visuals

I washed tomato trays, harvested cherry tomatoes and basil, watered pigs and chickens, then assisted with deliveries and CSA pickup. As we head into the fall, rain is more often, sometimes beneficial and sometimes detrimental to crops.

14 min read   ·   September 10, 2025   ·   9 visuals

We harvested peppers, eggplants, tomatoes, and sunflowers. Cleaned up red drying onions for the CSA shares this week, and sixty-seven dozen eggs came in since Friday. We also transplanted lettuce and direct seeded more salad turnips and radishes.

11 min read   ·   September 09, 2025   ·   12 visuals

We were a crew of just two today but moved the chicken coops, harvested tomatoes and squash, tilled in the high tunnel, and prepared beds for planting with the crew tomorrow.

14 min read   ·   September 08, 2025   ·   11 visuals

We washed bins then harvested eggplants, tomatoes, watermelons, squash, bok choy, and sunflowers. Then we finished hoeing the second of two new carrot patches. It was sunny, breezy, and 70 degrees Fahrenheit, perfect farming weather.

12 min read   ·   September 04, 2025   ·   7 visuals

Today we harvested sungold cherry tomatoes, processed drying onions, I weeded carrots and helped with CSA distribution. The joy on people's faces when they pick up their veg is kind of worth all the work to get it to them.

13 min read   ·   September 03, 2025   ·   6 visuals

Today we harvested swiss chard, cherry and slicer tomatoes, and italian peppers. Then we packed the van and prepared for the market. I also checksummed assumptions and challenges in my weekend startup farm business modeling while I rode around with Jamie doing chores and projects.

16 min read   ·   September 02, 2025   ·   15 visuals

We moved the chicken coops, then harvested eggplant, jewel melon, cucumbers, sunflowers, and peppers. I also learned about why, on a year when you get what you need from the earth, nothing is really a loss.

18 min read   ·   September 01, 2025   ·   10 visuals

We harvested slicer tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, and sunflowers then packed up the deliveries and electric van for market. We are inundated by tomatoes and thus hornworms too, but the chickens happily snack on them.

20 min read   ·   August 28, 2025   ·   11 visuals

We harvested cherry tomatoes, peppers, and scallions before packing up for markets. During afternoon animal chores, I got hit by a hailstorm.

11 min read   ·   August 27, 2025   ·   9 visuals

We harvested bok choy, sunflowers, summer squash, cucumbers, lettuce, and eggplants, then packed the van for CSA pickups in Essex.

10 min read   ·   August 26, 2025   ·   10 visuals

Today we moved the chicken coops, harvested tomatoes, and applied row cover. There was a power outage and some of our work had to be delayed, but with a small crew maybe the timing was best that way.

20 min read   ·   August 25, 2025   ·   10 visuals

We harvested tomatoes, eggplants, bok choy, squash, cucumbers, and sunflowers today. I also had time to reflect on the importance of social interaction in farming, both external and internal to the farm.

17 min read   ·   August 21, 2025   ·   7 visuals

We harvested scallions, bok choy, and eggplant then prepared a high tunnel for lettuces. On the ride home, I learned about stoichiometry, the chemical math behind soil amending.

27 min read   ·   August 19, 2025   ·   12 visuals

Spent three hours moving chicken coops, harvested sunflowers, and planted lettuces. At home, another five pounds of tomatoes goes in to the dehydrator, making my whole house smell like a sandwich shop

15 min read   ·   August 18, 2025   ·   11 visuals

With the farmer back from vacation, the team is busy harvesting and delivering fresh organic produce to customers, and the third heat wave this season this week, here's a brief look at what it takes to get all of this veg to market.

15 min read   ·   August 13, 2025   ·   13 visuals