This winter’s first real snowfall began this morning. The first fat clusters of flakes showed no signs of sticking around, but after an hour or so they seemed to get serious, and now we’ve got half an inch of light powder covering the vegetables that lost their covers over the last week. The plants that […]
Category Archives: The Farm
Now What?
Sunday, November 29, 2009
The night after Thanksgiving, we drove through snow coming back from visiting a farm near Windham. Then 60-mile-an-hour gusts tore the plastic sheeting from our low tunnels, again, and I spent an hour in sleet trying to get them well enough rearranged to keep our turnips and mache and carrots warm during the night’s freeze. […]
Cold Weather
Friday, November 6, 2009
We’re having the best streak of growing we’ve had all year, even with night-time temperatures dropping well below freezing and cold winds shredding any bit of row cover we leave unsecured. Most of the trees around the farm have dropped their last leaves, but inside our tunnels the mizuna and peas and broccoli rabe seem […]
Coming Along
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
A week of sun and temperatures fit for shorts gave our turnips and carrots and lettuces a much-needed boost. Even the kale we thought we’d lost to frost came back nicely and though it isn’t putting up much new growth it’s still withstanding our greedy harvests once or twice a week. We planted two varieties […]
Frost
Sunday, October 18, 2009
It’s freezing! We spent a frantic weekend in early October fighting with a stiff north wind for control over giant sheets of greenhouse plastic. We’d built low hooped tunnels over some of our newest greens and stretched plastic over them to protect them from the cold and keep those greens growing for fall. After hours […]
September Rebound
Friday, September 18, 2009
Even as it cools off and the leaves start turning upstate, we’re planting and harvesting more than ever. The big bang of June and July was muted by rain, and that rain cast a shadow over most of August: it took the plants, and the garden itself, a while to recover from the monsoons. A […]
July Harvest
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
july harvest, originally uploaded by benghoil. Mid-July: rainbow chard, Parris Island romaine, Red Russian kale, bull’s blood beets, chiogga beets, chantenay carrots, snap peas, black raspberries, maxibel haricots vert, frisee….
When it Rains
Monday, June 15, 2009
While we’ve been drowning in the city, our farm was weathering a 10-day drought in the Catskills–not a drop of rain for the first week and a half of June. But we seem to be sitting on a series of springs up there, and our plants have starting coming up even without rain: beet greens […]
Mother's Day
Sunday, May 10, 2009
We’re growing on several fronts this month: the farm is coming along, thanks in no small part to the efforts of Ann and Maggie: There’s also a little box garden at the restaurant, as much as a reminder of what we’re around for as for eating—though the lettuce is all ready to eat and is […]
Mother’s Day
Sunday, May 10, 2009
We're growing on several fronts this month: the farm is coming along, thanks in no small part to the efforts of Ann and Maggie: There’s also a little box garden at the restaurant, as much as a reminder of what we’re around for as for eating—though the lettuce is all ready to eat and is […]