Farming Notes

We harvested beets, kale and carrots today, then prepared seed garlic. I also assisted a clean out of two month old chicken bedding to prepare the coop for the next round of meat birds. Between the pig and chicken shit, I think Tom Hanks must have also mucked out horse stalls to arrive at his favorite curse word.

16 min read   ·   November 06, 2025   ·   11 visuals

Today we harvested kale, daikon radishes, and leeks. I checked and baited the electric fence as well. We also moved hen coops, cleaned some onions, and packed the van for CSA pickup.

18 min read   ·   November 05, 2025   ·   6 visuals

We harvested loose leaf red russian kale and escarole. Afterwards, I did some serious cleanup while the poultry was getting retrieved, then we packed the EV van for market.

13 min read   ·   November 04, 2025   ·   11 visuals

While Jamie took the meat birds to New Hampshire, we washed eggs, cleaned the fridge floor, then harvested choy sum, beets, and carrots. After lunch we finished an assortment of other tasks to be ready for receiving 240 whole poultry into the freezers.

15 min read   ·   November 03, 2025   ·   11 visuals

We harvested salad turnips, celeriac, and potatoes. I had a hand at chisel plowing the taters up and helped with other heavy lifting chores later in the day.

14 min read   ·   October 30, 2025   ·   9 visuals

I ran an errand to the local Co-op store then helped finish setting up the layer coop yard. We harvested tomatoes, mizuna, and hot peppers. We cleaned and finished out the drying onions from one of the two storage locations.

20 min read   ·   October 29, 2025   ·   9 visuals

I washed leeks then harvested carrots and lettuce. It was a very overcast and windy day, but the rain held off. I also submitted more homework for the Farm Business Planning course I'm taking.

15 min read   ·   October 28, 2025   ·   8 visuals

We harvested and bunched kale, choy sum, broccoli rabe, and salad turnips, also moved the meat bird coop and cleared out one of two winter squash crates. It was a long but fast day.

13 min read   ·   October 27, 2025   ·   10 visuals

We harvested celeriac, washed eggs, planted in the high tunnel, and packed bags for Friday pickup in Rockport. It was great weather and the work was good for my soul.

18 min read   ·   October 24, 2025   ·   9 visuals

We harvested tatsoi, broccoli rabe, italia sweet peppers, and leeks. Then we cleaned onions and weeded. This could have been one of the best days so far on the farm. I get to go back again tomorrow but that doesn't change how great the weather was today.

15 min read   ·   October 23, 2025   ·   9 visuals

On a perfectly sunny and breezy fall day, we moved chicken coops then harvested kale, carrots and broccoli rabe. After lunch, we collected soil samples from some of the fields and packed the van for Essex distribution. In the evening during my online course call, I started dehydrating butternut squash chips, hot peppers, and leeks.

14 min read   ·   October 21, 2025   ·   6 visuals

We moved the meat bird coop, harvested mizuna and napa cabbage, then did rainy day chores. It didn't feel like a long day at all, but definitely windy and raw.

13 min read   ·   October 20, 2025   ·   8 visuals

As a concept, Sweetsoil Foods processes the very freshest in-season vegetables into dehydrated products for you to enjoy all year round.

4 min read   ·   October 19, 2025   ·   12 visuals

We harvested greens, beets, and salad turnips, then cleaned and packed them. On the last week of the summer CSA, we are looking forward to cooler days for the next month of the fall share season.

16 min read   ·   October 16, 2025   ·   7 visuals

We harvested tatsoi, mustard greens, lettuce, beets, tomatoes, and salad turnips. The sun came out for about 15 minutes. I packed delivery bags, loaded the van for market, cleaned onions, and gave water to pigs and chickens. I enjoyed my work.

15 min read   ·   October 15, 2025   ·   9 visuals

We moved coops, harvested, and worked on projects a bit. It was a bit rainy in the morning, but an extra change of clothes did the trick, just like yesterday.

14 min read   ·   October 14, 2025   ·   5 visuals

Today was a very windy and rainy day, one of two on the forecast from a tropical storm moving through, and a federal holiday as well. Still we harvested because there are commitments to fulfill to our members on the last week of the summer CSA.

15 min read   ·   October 13, 2025   ·   7 visuals

In anticipation of the first frost tonight, we harvested the last of the peppers as well as eggplant, basil and lettuce for Saturday farmer's market. I also thought a lot about how next year will be different, personally and professionally.

15 min read   ·   October 09, 2025   ·   15 visuals

We harvested (some) kale before getting rained out, cleaned leeks and scallions, weeded the nursery greenhouse, bunched salad turnips and prepared for markets.

18 min read   ·   October 08, 2025   ·   10 visuals

We harvested kale, tatsoi and basil. I also harvested the first of the leeks this year, a favorite of mine and thus the hard work was a special treat for me. Abstracting is a past-time of mine, even the leaky/leeky ones.

16 min read   ·   October 07, 2025   ·   9 visuals