It has been a busy spring so far and we are getting started on a lot of projects that will carry through the summer months. As I’m sure you’ve seen we did have our first colony of honey bees arrive over a week ago and installed them into our top bar hive. The bees are … More Goings on Around the Farm
Garlic scapes are a delicious, versatile, and easy veggie that is often overlooked. That’s the name for the flower stalks that your garlic will send up, usually at the end of June or in early July. They indicate that your garlic is about a month away from harvest, and they give you a yummy taste … More Got Scapes?
The chicks are getting bigger by the moment. We’ve got full wings, feathery feets, little combs, and a lot of energy! Above is little Millie, the Mille de Fleur. She’s the most docile chick and loves to just sit in your hand and relax. Most of the Peepers have names at this point, including Salt … More Growing up
They are up! Once again we don’t be short in our supply of tomatoes this year. I’m always a bit ambitious but after all, you’d rather have too many and be giving them away than not enough. This spring’s first batch of little tomatoes includes Beefsteak, Brandywine, a Purple heirloom variety, and cherry tomatoes (my … More Seedlings 2014
This past weekend we cleared the mulch hay off of the garden bed, edged it, and turned it. Once the hay was off the soil was fairly loose and easy to turn with a pitchfork. And the worms! I have never seen so many huge, fat worms in my life. A single shovel full of … More Ready for Planting
It’s mud season in Maine! Actually it hasn’t been too messy at our farm, but there is one exception to that. The spot where we dismantled the barn last summer is a second pond. It is completely flooded with water. It was definitely time to move the barn: clearly it was sitting in water every … More Mud Season
It’s been a quiet few months buried in snow up here in Maine. We have experienced one of the most severe winters in living memory, and that means not just snow storms every week but also sub zero temperatures being the norm. There were definitely some days it felt like winter was not going to … More Getting Ready to Start Planting
Stepping away from the chicks for an entry (it is hard to do!), our garden has benefited greatly from a week of warm drizzle and occasional rain here in Maine. Of course heading into the sixth straight day of drizzle and rain, this may start to be more harm than good, but until now it’s … More Also growing, the plants
This weekend was chilly and windy here but still filled with sunshine. The forecast says it’s going to warm up again so the most hardy of our seedlings were put into the garden. The rest of the seedlings will be planted this coming weekend, when it is supposed to be warmer. It’s still a week … More Spring planting, round one
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