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Year: 2013

A carrot day at the market

16 Nov 201316 Nov 2013 by Mike (tfb)

Carrots at the farmers’ market: One or two crops always seem to do particularly well, but different ones every week. Explanation: unknown. Today is a carrot day. … Read the rest

Categories Market & Stand, Veggies Tags Autumn, carrot, farmers' market, sales Leave a comment

Fast Friday harvest

15 Nov 201315 Nov 2013 by Mike (tfb)

Chickens after harvest: Andrea M checks in with the girls after one of the quickest Friday harvests ever. Beets, carrots, a small amount of arugula and spinach from the unheated greenhouse… Several way freezing nights have left the field mostly … Read the rest

Categories Animals, Fieldwork, People, Veggies Tags Andrea M, arugula, Autumn, beet, carrot, chickens, spinach 2 Comments

Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow

3 Apr 20169 Nov 2013 by Mike (tfb)
Fall harvest: carrots, beets, Jerusalem artichoke

Beets, carrots, sunchokes: 8 am, second Saturday of the indoor winter market, freezing rain and flurries outside, it’s cool to be under cover..… Read the rest

Categories Local food, Market & Stand, Veggies Tags Autumn, beet, carrot, Jerusalem artichoke, winter market Leave a comment

Sifting compost (every tool has its day)

5 Mar 20225 Nov 2013 by Mike (tfb)
Sifting compost

[8-May-2012] Every tool has its day! I bought this metal mesh-bottomed soil sifter in my first couple of years of tiny farming, it seemed like something that would come in handy, but for years after was used only as a … Read the rest

Categories Farm lab (research!), Seed starting, Tools Tags compost, seedling mix, Spring Leave a comment

Winter spinach

1 Mar 20161 Oct 2013 by Mike (tfb)

Later and later we go: More late season/winter harvest experiments, with four-week-old spinach transplants into the unheated greenhouse. Also trying out a trench approach to transplanting—a furrow about 6″ deep, made with a hoe—instead of putting them in one by … Read the rest

Categories Farm lab (research!), Greenhouse, Veggies Tags Autumn, spinach, transplant, unheated greenhouse, winter harvest Leave a comment
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