Farming Notes

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.

21 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.

29 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

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.

15 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