Farming Notes

We harvested swiss chard, hot peppers and sunflowers. The rest was odds and ends tasks, chores, and packing for market. Coming home on these hot days, it's hard to do anything but shower and relax, so no progress on the homelab was made today.

15 min read   ·   August 12, 2025   ·   7 visuals

A farmer generally doesn't get a day off until time is made for that sort of thing. There's enough of us to cover a few days for Jamie this week, so during a third heat wave this year, we harvested tomatoes, eggplant, sunflowers, peppers, and celery as well as did chores

17 min read   ·   August 11, 2025   ·   11 visuals

It was a very busy day on the farm, as usual. We consolidated row cover and other resources around the fields, harvested carrots and potatoes, prepared kale for the fall harvest, and did other key daily and seasonal chores.

17 min read   ·   August 08, 2025   ·   14 visuals

We moved the chicken coops, harvested cucumbers and tomatoes, gathered field trash, and weeded a lot.

16 min read   ·   August 07, 2025   ·   9 visuals

It's week 10 of a 20 week CSA and onions are everywhere. Garlic is drying, carrots are diminishing (but we're seeding more every week or so), and tomatoes are flourishing.

19 min read   ·   August 05, 2025   ·   8 visuals

We harvested eggplant, peppers, sunflowers, tomatoes and all throughout, the mosquitoes harvested us. Despite that, it was a good day for both farm and my tech process.

15 min read   ·   August 04, 2025   ·   14 visuals

We planted lettuce and bok choy then harvested carrots in the rain. Then I bagged potatoes, peeled onions, and seeded the rest of the short day.

13 min read   ·   July 31, 2025   ·   5 visuals

We harvested carrots and lots onions, dealt with an ornery gator, then packed up to go to market.

16 min read   ·   July 30, 2025   ·   15 visuals

On a 95 degree day, we moved pigs, harvested chard, peppers, eggplant and fennel all before noon. In the afternoon, cool-down activities involved potting on seedlings, washing eggs and bagging potatoes.

14 min read   ·   July 29, 2025   ·   15 visuals

A quick retrospective of the month's farm operations and prioritization changes. Most of our activities don't change week over week, but every so often something reminds you to stay on your toes.

15 min read   ·   July 28, 2025   ·   16 visuals

We harvested carrots, celery, eggplant and onions, then weeded and moved irrigation a bit. It was a hot, dry, sunny day but ending up with a few pounds of loose carrots made the evening a happy one. Sharing carrots with friends and community isn't unlike sharing open source code...my roots are in both.

20 min read   ·   July 24, 2025   ·   10 visuals

It was a pretty easy day today, a bit hotter than the last but the breeze kept the greenhead flies and mosquitoes away for the most part while we harvested cilantro and weeded a field of peppers and eggplant.

14 min read   ·   July 23, 2025   ·   9 visuals

Today’s field work included harvesting cabbage, cherry tomatoes, and onions, weeding rows, and managing weeds in the garden. In my research and homelab work, I've been pushing the art of summarization on multiple fronts...

20 min read   ·   July 22, 2025   ·   11 visuals

Because of the good weather, we harvested lots of carrots, beets, celery, eggplant, fennel, and peppers. Similar to the way We empty beds to make room for new crops, I also have divested effort in some of my prior technology works.

15 min read   ·   July 21, 2025   ·   11 visuals

We harvested cabbage, celery, carrots, and basil. A surprise spider and tomato plant were encountered. Bugs are everywhere and can't be simply 'cancelled' without affecting quality, on a farm or in my homelab production code.

14 min read   ·   July 17, 2025   ·   8 visuals

We harvested Alisa Craig onions, carrots, and garlic this morning then we did odd jobs like irrigation repair and bunching before packing the vehicles for markets. I also worked a bit on my local homelab and blogging infrastructure, patched a few infrequently appearing bugs, and started retrofitting my own LLMBO service to be usable as an Ollama proxy.

22 min read   ·   July 16, 2025   ·   14 visuals

We moved chicken coops, harvested the first early onions and garlic, and prepared for all the cabbage that will be coming in from the fields for the next few weeks.

10 min read   ·   July 14, 2025   ·   10 visuals

We planted winter squash, harvested basil and cilantro, and prepared for market. And I got to drive the John Deere 1140 tractor for the first time.

14 min read   ·   July 09, 2025   ·   6 visuals

We harvested swiss chard, basil, cilantro, and lettuce. We weeded, hoed, fixed irrigation lines, and seeded trays. It was another 95 degree, mostly sunny day with less wind than yesterday. The bugs were worse. The conversation was real.

22 min read   ·   July 08, 2025   ·   5 visuals