September 9th - The Variable Need of Farming Labor 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. 11 min read · September 09, 2025 · 12 visuals 2025 · peppers eggplants tomatoes sunflowers onions eggs lettuce turnips radishes · daily-notes August 12th - So Many Hot Peppers and Sunflowers 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 2025 · chard peppers sunflowers eggs market · daily-notes value-added-products July 29th - Pig Reintegration and Lambda Eggplant 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 2025 · pigs chard peppers eggplant fennel onions watermelon seedlings eggs · daily-notes June 9th - Weather or Not, Here We Grow It was the perfect weather for just about everything on a farm, so we harvested, weeded, washed, and chored. 16 min read · June 09, 2025 · 7 visuals 2025 · greenhouse watering harvesting kale swiss-chard weeding beets eggs washing scallions · daily-notes June 6th - Small Crew, What Can You Do? With just three of us, on a stormy morning, we processed 48 dozen eggs, harvested and washed more bok choy, kale, and lettuce for the CSA, then planted peppers in the new greenhouse. 8 min read · June 06, 2025 · 5 visuals 2025 · storm eggs bok-choy kale lettuce peppers · daily-notes June 3rd - Washing Is Almost Everything I washed eggs, totes, lettuce, bok choy, broccoli raab, kale, and more. 15 min read · June 03, 2025 · 6 visuals 2025 · csa washing eggs lettuce bok-choi broccoli-raab kale · daily-notes CSA Week 1 - Raab, Radishes, Lettuce, Bok Choy, Kale, Oregano, and Cabbage Ideas for using your CSA week 1 share full of early season greens; snacks, stir fry, and salads 5 min read · June 01, 2025 · 0 visuals 2025 · eggs radishes tokyo-bekana kale lettuce bok-choy broccoli-raab basil oregano · csa-ideas May 27th - Flight of the Tomatoes Two of us washed 43 dozen eggs in about 2 hours, then we planted dahlias and (finally) some tomatoes in the new greenhouse 17 min read · May 27, 2025 · 4 visuals 2025 · greenhouse eggs tomatoes dahlias · daily-notes May 22nd - High Winds and Rainy Chores Today we prepared for 50mph gusts, I processed 40 dozen eggs, and we cleaned up the barn in prep for power washing next week. 15 min read · May 22, 2025 · 2 visuals 2025 · high-tunnel wind row-cover seeding cleanup eggs · daily-notes May 19th - Cultivating Future Growth We cultivated then planted zuchini and summer squash; then we processed eggs. 7 min read · May 19, 2025 · 11 visuals 2025 · farming planting cultivating squash zuchini eggs · daily-notes May 15th - Your Field Team Makes Your Day I washed eggs while the other four team members covered the pepper field, then we planted. 9 min read · May 15, 2025 · 4 visuals 2025 · farming greenhouse planting peppers tomatoes eggs washing · daily-notes May 12th - Hoe, Hoe, Hoe Your Rows We washed 83 dozen eggs, hoed in the dry fields, then planted more onions. 8 min read · May 12, 2025 · 8 visuals 2025 · farming eggs stirrup hoes weeds scallions onions planting greenhouse cleanup · daily-notes May 6th - Eighty-dozen Eggs and Rain on the Face Processed 83 dozen eggs, preppared a pig pen, and planted in the rain 6 min read · May 06, 2025 · 3 visuals 2025 · farming onions planting eggs washing pigs · daily-notes May 1st - Eggs and Onions and Watering Robots (Oh My!) Cleaned and packed 70 dozen eggs, planted some onions, and thought about a robot for watering greenhouses 13 min read · May 01, 2025 · 6 visuals 2025 · farming greenhouse onions eggs robotics watering · daily-notes April 24th - Mulching, Fence Baiting, Drip Irrigation, and Tractors More progress on the new tomato greenhouse and many odds and ends tasks while waiting for a shipment. 9 min read · April 24, 2025 · 11 visuals 2025 · farming mulch fences greenhouse compost trenches irrigation eggs salt-marsh-hay shipment gro-trak · daily-notes April 23rd - Salt Marsh Hay and Sixty Dozen Eggs A day off from planting and row cover, but not from other hard work 8 min read · April 23, 2025 · 9 visuals 2025 · farming eggs salt-marsh-hay · daily-notes April 9th - Egg Economics, Greenhouse Seeding, and LLM Context Seeding and egg washing takes patience and neck muscles. 5 min read · April 09, 2025 · 2 visuals 2025 · farming greenhouse technology eggs CSA seeding · daily-notes