May 2012
April 2012
- Garlic check-in
- Bare root seed starting
- Planet Jr. rides again
- Planting the rain gauge
- Garlic rising
March 2012
February 2012
January 2012
December 2011
- Popular posts
- Stylesheet
- 3796
- Test question
- Test question
- Anchoring the hoophouse
- Building Soils for Better Crops
- Bicycle commute
- Somewhat submerged!
November 2011
October 2011
- Brrrr…
- Parsnip root flashback
- A tiny farming manifesto?
- 3506
- 3507
- 3510
- 3504
- Garden Politics (or: What’s up with tiny farming?)
- 3508
- What’s in the field?
- 3511
- 3512
- Home
- Patchy frost
- Well-thinned carrots, growing well!
September 2011
- More local food, cooking!
- Peppers turn color!
- After market
- Frost arrives
- Frost protection time again
- Pumpkins in!
- Frost? Take your pick!
- Beautiful bok choi
- Yellow Stuffer, a tomato
- Some winter squash
- Simple stew
- First potatoes
August 2011
- Return of potato fruit
- A little extra watering in
- Another good market day!
- Last in!
- Big, ugly, quite tasty
- The morning farmscape
- Friday harvest to Saturday market
- Weekly Harvest Share #2
July 2011
June 2011
March 2011
February 2011
January 2011
November 2010
July 2010
May 2010
April 2010
March 2010
- Editing onions, counting peppers
- Tug-o-war
- Seeds still work!
- Farm animals
- 1440 onions
- In the beginning, again
January 2010
December 2009
November 2009
October 2009
September 2009
August 2009
- Garden in transition
- Perfect (market garden) squash!
- Sunflowers
- Potato digging party
- Dog days of summer (a few)
- First peppers
- Eggs from the wild
July 2009
- Chickens, frozen
- Chickens to meat
- Drizzly days
- So it’s…colors!
- Packing shares: done!
- Working the new potatoes
- Weighing chickens
- Baby veggies go to market
- Carrot-burlap method gets a twist
- Chickens: ranging too far
- Another rainbow
- Spring-planted garlic…
- Farm eggs with hot sausage
June 2009
- Local beef
- Early season harvest day
- Extending the chickenhouse
- Last of the spring planting
- Welcome back, my friends
- Beet greens!
- Planet Jr. rising
- Behaving like chickens!
- Hand-tended
- First veg at the new farmers’ market!
May 2009
- This year’s chickens
- New chickenhouse progress
- Another hand-watering method
- Starting the new chickenhouse
- Skinning the hoophouse
- More onions
- Water pipe
- 50 feet!
- Visiting at the farmers’ market
- Filling the fields continues
- Map day!
- Happy signs of veggie life
- Compost spreading: another way…
- Hardening off continues
- Allie’s photo gallery II
- Sprouts!
- Transplanting team…
- Spot the tiny farm!
- Seedlings queue up
- A field day
- Ways to spread
- First day at the new farmers’ market
- Mixing and repotting
April 2009
- Spring garlic?
- First veg in the field: it’s peas!
- Direct seeding
- Potatoes delivered
- Red cabbage
- Disc action
- Hoophouse end walls
- Jostling tomatoes
- Tiny farm moving – Part 4
- Direct-seeding peas
- People at work: hoophouse goes up!
- Tiny machine action
- The rain watch begins (once again)
- Compressed air and rototiller repair
- Rototilling results…
- Seedlings on the move
- Managing seedlings
- Soil inspection
- Making space and saving space
- Tiny cultivation
- A brief return to winter
- Tomatoes galore
- Grass vs moldboard
- Advanced lighting automation
- Eggplant check
- Ah, control…
- Broccoli shapes up
March 2009
- Fieldwork: Day 1
- Different kind of compost heap
- After the rain, again
- Kale in survival mode
- Onions in the sun
- Fresh at last!
- New eggplant (and peppers)
- Seeding as we go…
- Tiny farm moving – Part 3
- More seedlings appear
- Abandoned bee village
- Starting more seed!
- Express yourself: parsley
- Snow off, snow on
- Apple a day…
- One-horse farming
- The great WARM outdoors!
- Lead bean, Part 2
- Last-frost countdown begins!
February 2009
- Plug sheets, get ready!
- South slope waiting
- Loaded
- Parsley pops up
- Hitting the books: Composting!
- Fava beans test OK
- Seedling room settling in
- Grow lights on again!
- Strolling on the new field
- Tiny farm moving – Part 2
- Mid-February melt-off
- Onions emerge
- See ya, goats and chickens…
- Fully enclosed, at last
- New seed started!
- Village general store
- Greenhouse overgrown
- New seedling room: doorknobs and AC plugs
- North field in snow
January 2009
- Old broadcast seeder
- Another snow day
- Main order done!
- A favorite tree…
- New seedling room: getting there!
- Drive shed revisited
- Flashback: Harvest share!
- Organic certification…
- Chickens on egg
- Tiny farming in January
- Winter light
- What’s in the field: 2008
- Tiny farming basic reference
- Your veg is in the mail
- More cold-weather construction
- Checking on the beef
- Chickens standing around
- Barn work continues
- New year, new farm!
December 2008
- Winter farm desk
- Wrecking and building
- A little winter rain…
- Christmas bear…
- Chickens want in
- Demo to go
- Snow days
- Barn shortcut
- Visiting down the road
- All-weather chickens
- The goats
- Snow load watch
- Drive shed clean-up continues
- Off-season visit
- Road to the Chickenhouse
- Chickens love eggs
- Hitting the books
- News, off!
- Chickens in snow
- Hardy berry
- Stacking cages
- Chickens at work
November 2008
- Frozen chokes harvest
- Battery change
- Change of view
- Snowy
- Veggies in snow
- Farm gothic?
- Bringing in the pipe
- It’s really cold
- Drive shed clean-up
- Snow carrot harvest
- Hoarding wood like gold
- First catalog
- Real live south-facing slope!
- Roosters: alive and kicking
- The family that digs together…
- New farm revisited
- Flies to heat
October 2008
- Tossing onions
- Bringing in the pump
- Big egg
- New farm
- Root love
- The snow-on-veggies effect…
- Ahhh, snow!
- Farm video
- Allie’s photo gallery
- The incredible shrinking harvest!
- Road trip, sorta
- The autumn view…
- Middle of the day at the market
- Night work
- Finally, frost!
- Bus stop
- Cold-weather harvest
- Digging up potatoes
- Sweet potato harvest
September 2008
- This week’s share
- Winter squash season
- Friday harvests get quicker!
- Beautifying the good garlic
- Pumpkins and pigweed
- First frost misses
- Last day of summer in the garden!
- Last market day of summer
- Fun with harvest bins
- Jerusalem artichoke in full flower
- Farm share
- Restaurant run
- Fall frost watch 2008
- The field heading into autumn
- CSA set-up at the farmers’ market
- Fall harvest…
- Violet returns: visiting with worms
- Fall crop watch
- Donkey care
- Trimming garlic
- The Omnivore’s Dilemma
- Fantastic egg tray technology!
- Cutting spinach
- After the row cover: weeding!
- Veg variety
- Outhouse deluxe in action
- Parsnip surprise
August 2008
- Farmers’ market set-up
- More post-harvest action
- Onions from seed!
- Potato fruit
- Odds-and-ends omelet
- Weighing eggs
- Soaring chokes
- After the market
- Good beans…
- Last of the lettuce
- This year’s BBQ
- Fall crops
- Supply run…
- Poor tomatoes
- Bean watch
- Post-harvest aftermath
- Scrabbling for potatoes
- Flowers galore
- Burlap expires
- Changing of the weather
- What’s new at the farmers’ market…
- Harvesting around the rain
- Pigweed rehabilitated?
- The View in early August
- Buckets of rainbows
- Farmers’ market cruises along…
- Laid back Friday harvest…
July 2008
- Garlic all in
- Hail damage reassessed
- People in the field update
- CSA share check-in
- Three minutes of mayhem
- Crowded stand
- Rinsing…
- Massive new potatoes
- Digging garlic
- Beans and big weeds
- More carrots
- Summer days
- Backstage at the farmers’ market: harvest bins
- Harvest wet work
- Last of the season’s brassicas
- View from the stand
- Cut flowers arrive
- Dirty hands at the farmers’ market
- Kids in the field
- Working the tiny tractor
- Sweet potato thrives
- Maria from Barcelona…
- Still a lot of greens…
- “I love intense!”
- Farmer Lynn!
- Maintaining mesclun
June 2008
- Pick your own CSA share pick-up
- Rainy day market
- Broccoli from the weeds
- Green on green
- Instant farmer!
- Eggs everywhere!
- Or the oregano…
- Tiny farming: it’s a garden party!?
- Tiny harvest!
- A simple (chicken!) sandwich
- Definitely ready to lay
- Chickens to the slaughter
- Checking under row cover
- Weeding day
- Measuring peak oil by the can
- Weird weather day
- Plastic…fantastic?
- More Friday greens…
- Outhouse deluxe
- Sweet potatoes!
- The Endless Salad…
- Scaling up the grass mulch
- Dirty Hands 1
- Thinning and weeding
- Crops among the weeds
- Finally, a field harvest…
- Carrots: burlap rules
- Chickens, bull, fence…
- Shifting gears for summer…
- Farewell to the Colonel!
- Ah, the Home Garden…
May 2008
- Veggie Outpost 2
- Just radishes…
- Potting for market
- Frey’s vs White Rock
- Good germination
- Row cover everywhere
- Where we’re at…
- Farmers’ market: Day 2
- Found: chives, spinach, rhubarb…
- Slow…
- What I’m not up to…
- Great day in the field
- Work for a dreary day
- First market 2008…
- Free-range chicken
- First harvest 2008!
- Not THAT cold…
- Photo shoot!
- Grass mulch, Season 2
- Greenhouse upgrades
- Seedlings away!
- Rinsing station gear comes out
- Herb garden time…
- Chickens just wanna eat…
- Frost is pretty when…
- Onions and potatoes go in
- Tender to the greenhouse
- Green day
- Seedlings stack up
- Puddle gauge
April 2008
- Nice…and cold!
- Peas appear
- Big rototiller breakdown
- First rain (just a little)
- Potting up
- Garlic the Reliable
- Chicken check-in
- Spring fieldwork continues
- Earth Day observed
- Grass fire across the road
- How odd…
- Tangling with hoses
- Seedlings don’t wait around!
- Field day!
- Chickens arrive!
- Head out on the highway…
- Seedlings everywhere!
- Garden Politics (or: What’s up with tiny farming?)
- Hanging in the greenhouse
- Freezing rain
- Drying out
- Greenhouse growing
- Melt-off complete!
- Submerged garlic and root-diving voles
- Field wakes up…
- Liming the Chickenhouse
- Ah, SPRING!
- Herbs return
- Spring comes Saturday!
- Chickenhouse progress
- Early spring rounds
March 2008
- Field appears
- First tomato: 2008
- This year’s early lettuce…
- Seedling action
- New gardener
- Catalog shopping: chickens on order!
- Inside and out…
- Chickenhouse inspection
- Rack built
- Peppers!
- Meet my garden spirit guide
- Spring begins
- Plugging away in the greenhouse
- Seasonal salad
- Arugula under cover
- Walk to work
- New lumber
- Back in the dirt!
- The watering tray
- Making water
- Back to the field!
- Slightly snowbound
- Celery!
- Seedlings continue to grow…
- Trip to town
- Trimming leeks
- The wild bunch
- Chicken catalogs
- More fun with lettuce
- Two arugulas
February 2008
- Still snowy
- Fuzzy little rosemary
- Parsley update
- Tea and fungi
- Seed starting tools II
- Simpson Elite
- Lightbox suspended
- My old friend the min-max thermometer
- Archives
- New rosemary
- Welcome to KeroWorld
- Parsley!
- Tomato seed
- Ten-day leeks
- Exploring down below…
- Lettuce-watching
- Still snow…
- Leeks appear
- Little lettuce
- Seedling treatment
- Books! Seed! Orders arrive…
- More weather
- First cuts
- Seed ordering sanity
- Riding the weather
- Arugula emerges
January 2008
- Cows and calves
- Extreme farming…
- Getting started
- Quite white
- Assessing greenhouse clean-up
- Paperwork!
- Grow lights, on!
- Snow plowing…
- New cows!
- Orchid, wintergreen, heather…
- Virtual local?
- Rough carpentry
- Sun and silo
- Field map and field…
- What’s in the field: 2007
- More carrots…
- Rye thrives…
- A little fieldwork
- Called for wind
- All clear…
- Black locust in the melt-off
- Road slush
- The Big Shelf
- Yellow…
- Welcome to the chickenhouse…
- Barn, Milkhouse, snow load
- New Year’s Day
December 2007
- Another year gone by, and the donkey’s doing fine…
- Temperature gadget
- Not turkey, beets!
- Brussels sprouts for Christmas?
- Puddles on ice
- First day of winter
- Local toast
- Barnyard at night
- Snowbanks
- Whiteout
- Local food luxury
- Root cellar check-in
- Stakes vs cages
- The joy of decay…
- Calendars love catalogs
- Winter watch: the greenhouse
- The seed…
- Broccoli flowers (flashback!)
- Return to the trays
- Checking on the greenhouse
- Catalog season
- The Drive Shed
- Email me
- Heat!
- Farming from inside…
November 2007
- Official: the garden season really is over
- Sooo, organic IS better!?!
- Machines and snow
- Outpost returns
- Kale under…snow
- Rosemary under snow
- Buckets of snow
- Jerusalem artichoke update
- Spreading grass mulch
- Cleaning up
- All clear
- Crispy cold carrots
- Compact tractor tricks
- Checking on rye
- Bye-bye, sweet peppers…
- More fall finishing
- Rototiller breakdown
- Spearmint and the other herbs
- First snow comes and goes
- Root cellar lite
- Broccoli vs cauliflower
- Manure spreading action!
- ‘Tis the season…
- The new year begins here!
- Making mulch, part 4
October 2007
- At the wheel
- Zinnia vs calendula
- Killing frost, kinda
- Putting food by
- Au revoir to the farmers’ market!
- Choose your fork wisely
- View from the other end
- Leftovers
- Big old barn
- Welding
- Pumpkins on the stand
- And now for something completely different…
- Last big harvest of the year!
- Harvesting Brussels sprouts
- Getting ready for garlic
- Cows at the gate
- Making mulch, part 3
- Frost protection
- Seasonal eating
- Big beets
- Making mulch, part 2
- After the harvest
- Tasty baby bok choi
- Flower garden
- Jerusalem artichoke flowers
- Winter squash
- Autumn harvest action!
- Making mulch
- Brussels sprouts
- More tiny eggplant
- Spicy greens
September 2007
- Basic barbecue
- Off to market…
- Rainy day harvest fashion
- Return to Jerusalem artichoke
- Tags (find stuff!)
- Pumpkins come in
- Unruly heirlooms
- Big sky
- Rye arrives!
- Little bundles for market
- Cabbage and cauliflower
- Mesclun, mesclun, everywhere!
- Watering till the end!
- Garlic for sale…?
- Goats…
- Weed gone to seed
- Row cover decision
- Screen table
- Trying fall rye
- Return of spinach
- Tossing rocks
- A spot of tea…
- A September view…
- Hot peppers
- Pumpkins’ progress
- Oats vs pigweed!
- Four shares on the table
- Cup of flowers
- Latest brassicas released
- Tomatoes to the heap
August 2007
- Early harvest day…
- Share of the week
- Drought, what drought?
- Radish without holes
- Chives-level view
- Tiny farming down the road
- Sunflowers, cut flowers…
- Oats
- At last, rain!
- Japan to the field!
- Roofing the stand
- New view of the field
- Pigweed piled high
- More from the Market
- Harvest board
- Cherry tomatoes
- Pigweeding and local food
- Water in the air!
- Purple Haze
- Tomatoes
- Late morning at the farmers’ market
- More bean harvesting action
- Mesclun on my mind
- Pulling onions
- Carrots, next up!
- Crops for Fall
- Anti-raccoon measures
- Last of the seedlings
- Farmer in field
- Hand tools
- Row cover mystery
July 2007
- Turning to corn…
- Peppers…
- The end of July
- More on the carrot-burlap method
- The Friday harvest
- Supporting tomatoes
- Hauling garlic
- Making stakes
- Pumpkin update
- Eggplant on the way
- Comments (all of ‘em)
- Sunflowers show up!
- Fish in the field
- Dinner!
- Risk crop
- Outpost
- Pigweed: going in!
- Red onions, golden beets
- Freshly dug garlic
- Milkhouse looking out
- Pounding stakes
- Burlap method strikes again!
- Water work
- Wheel turning
- Sort, bundle, bag
- First carrots plus beets!
- At least a little rain
- Extreme makeover
- Pond and pump
- Spin cycle
June 2007
- Stupice first on the vine
- Late June harvest
- Bicycles?!
- Corn
- Pumpkins unveiled
- Meet the beans!
- Where carrot seed comes from
- Farmers’ market stand described…
- Packing station
- Doing the rounds
- Checking potatoes
- Cloud show
- Three generations…
- The hay around us
- Beet greens at market
- Beet greens harvest
- Not a pretty picture
- Stakes and cages
- Tiny eggplant
- New view
- Perfect growing day
- Not so sorted at the Market
- Good weather is also strange
- Back to growing
- Late frost warning
- Working in the rain
- What to do with pumpkins
- Last of the Milkhouse seedlings
- Sunflowers come up quick!
- Team harvest!
May 2007
- Jerusalem artichoke
- More people in the field…
- Wheel Hoe Day
- Potatoes from next door
- After the rain…
- Found onions
- Farm stand to go…
- Tomatoes to the field
- Cucurbits germinate!
- Fieldwork!
- Spinach grows up
- Herbs…
- Set to explode
- Evening harvest
- Tomatoes go in
- Spring rain
- More hands on deck
- More seedlings to the greenhouse
- Gardens within gardens
- First day at the farmers’ market!
- Sorting
- Flea beetles
- Carrots like burlap!
- Potatoes and people
- Let’s take a look
- Bring on the cucurbits
- Rabbit food
- Potatoes go in
- Greenhouse filling up
- Lettuce gone wild…
- Tinier tomatoes
April 2007
- Spot the spinach
- O, the luxury!
- Fixed it
- Getting busy
- Field at night
- Carrot science
- Off to the hoophouse
- The spreader
- Garlic, now!
- Get it in, get it done!
- First field transplant of the year
- Latest tomatoes
- Greenroom bubbling over…
- Greens machine!
- Wood pile
- Gardener of all I survey…
- Breaking new ground
- Flowers on my mind…
- Heading out…
- Seedlings aplenty
- Juliet’s a fine tomato!
- Lettuce, peanut butter and mice
- Microfarming year-in-pictures
- Vanishing lettuce
- Germination test
- Ah, the weather
- The rhubarb debacle
- Rosemary cloned
- First direct seeding of the year!
- What’s in the field?
- Chives
- CSA shares…
March 2007
- Horse back in action…
- Floating row cover!
- True leaves
- Fill your head!!
- Lettuce transplanted
- Heading for the sun
- Hoses and rocks
- After winter kale
- Second day of spring
- Vigorous Vittoria
- Fresh lettuce
- Plug sheet action
- Seed starting tools
- Grow racks at night
- Progress…
- Eggplant emerges
- Checking on the garlic
- Melting from the edges
- Profusion of parsley
- Monitoring spring melt-off
- Grow racks in action
- Seed starting station
- New rack ready to roll!
- Raw materials
- Lettuce under the lights
- Valuable stuff!
February 2007
- A beautiful day
- Volunteers prep greenhouse!
- Tiny Farm Bookshelf, Part 1
- Lettuce overnight
- Sitemap (all pages listed!)
- Lettuce begins
- Rosemary revival
- Roof is working out
- As winter as it gets…
- In the mix…
January 2007
- Seed starts here…
- Winter wonderland
- Warmer in here!
- Still alive? Not quite well
- Last of the carrots
- Want to tiny farm too?
- Winter is a no-show
December 2006
November 2006
October 2006
September 2006
August 2006
July 2006
June 2006
May 2006
- More peas!
- Seedlings
- First market!
- Stormy weather
- To the greenhouse
- Compost tea
- First potato
- 50 mm
- Beets and competition
- What’s up, early May?
- Grass…
- Parsley and sage
- Buildings
- Sprinklers in action
- Early lettuce expands
- Rototilling
- Opening soon!
- Pond and barrel
April 2006
- Thin green lines
- Water!
- Scary?
- It’s a start…
- Garlic!
- Sunny day
- Spuds arrive
- It’s all about the rain…
- Gloomy, but wet!
- Lettuce progresses
- Global as gas
- Red sun at night
- Hundreds of seedlings
- The Milkhouse
