Farming Notes

We harvested scallions, sweet peppers, lettuce and potatoes. In the afternoon, we replaced a dump truck starter.

11 min read   ·   October 03, 2025   ·   10 visuals

We harvested kale, hot peppers, tatsoi, and potatoes. We also moved tractors over to the dry fields to begin winter preparation.

15 min read   ·   October 02, 2025   ·   14 visuals

We harvested eggplant, radishes, adn the last of the winter squash before discing in some rye. We set up an enclosed yard for the meat birds. I also thought a lot about the hype and reality of precision agriculture in small organic farms versus flattened mono-crop macro-farms.

17 min read   ·   September 30, 2025   ·   6 visuals

We moved chicken coops, harvested kale and broccoli rabe along with some beautiful red bell peppers, then cleaned up garlic heads. We also brought in the last of the pumpkins.

25 min read   ·   September 29, 2025   ·   9 visuals

We harvested radishes, broccoli rabe, and eggplant, then installed irrigation in the high tunnel, and cleaned garlic before packing deliveries and the van for market. It was a very rainy day, but we managed to get a lot done.

16 min read   ·   September 25, 2025   ·   9 visuals

We harvested italian peppers, greenhouse tomatoes, and tatsoi. We also worked on high tunnel beds and planted in lettuces and scallions.

18 min read   ·   September 24, 2025   ·   9 visuals

For the most part, we harvested more tatsoi and gourds, then disced in winter rye seed. Many indoor activities were deferred until tomorrow since there's a good chance of rain.

18 min read   ·   September 23, 2025   ·   8 visuals

We moved chicken coops then harvested peppers, radishes, winter squashes and pumpkins. Gourds are a lot of heavy lifting work.

14 min read   ·   September 22, 2025   ·   3 visuals

I washed bins then harvested tatsoi, 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.

20 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.

12 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