peppers

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 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.

19 min read   ·   September 15, 2025   ·   17 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.

11 min read   ·   September 09, 2025   ·   12 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We planted peppers, spread the last of the landscaping fabric, staked tomatoes, and celebrated our farmer's birthday

9 min read   ·   May 20, 2025   ·   5 visuals

I washed eggs while the other four team members covered the pepper field, then we planted.

9 min read   ·   May 15, 2025   ·   4 visuals