Farming Notes

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

A hot day in the field involved harvesting beets and celery, battling bugs, taking a lunch break, and mending the fence, with tasks like washing things and managing the fence part. Also, tech jobs...getting and working...are a grind.

16 min read   ·   July 07, 2025   ·   9 visuals

Lots of weeding today because hashtag organic farm. Yellow summer squash are actually rolling around the fields. Basil, scallions, chard...all bountiful.

21 min read   ·   July 02, 2025   ·   9 visuals

We moved the chicken coops and harvested chard in the morning. Then in the afternoon, we harvested basil.

18 min read   ·   July 01, 2025   ·   5 visuals

Today was a pretty typical day on the farm during CSA season with limited crew. Chores, harvesting, bunching, washing and packing of lettuces, radishes, salad turnips, fennel, and scallions. Watered vegetables and cows.

19 min read   ·   June 30, 2025   ·   9 visuals

Today was much cooler than the past two scorchers, so we planted and weeded as much as possible until market load-up.

18 min read   ·   June 26, 2025   ·   5 visuals

It was 90 degrees as we weeded and hoed, but this was much more bearable than yesterday. Napa cabbage harvested, basil pinched, and leeks completely weeded.

18 min read   ·   June 25, 2025   ·   7 visuals

Despite the heat wave, there's always work to do on the farm. In small batches and with plenty of water, seven of us got done what needed to get done.

19 min read   ·   June 24, 2025   ·   8 visuals

Today was the first work day of a record-breaking heat wave in New England. We harvested in short spikes with breaks in between then set up some irrigation lines.

18 min read   ·   June 23, 2025   ·   13 visuals

It was a very hot day after 11am field work. Also...a retrospective about the past week of blogging augmented with Deepseek despite prompt tweaks.

17 min read   ·   June 19, 2025   ·   7 visuals

I harvested and weeded a lot today. I also discussed value-added product strategy with a farmer. This was where I hoped I would be last year, but it took some hard work to get here.

14 min read   ·   June 18, 2025   ·   7 visuals

Activities and topics today were planning activities related to radishes, field, things.

18 min read   ·   June 17, 2025   ·   7 visuals