October 2, 2007
Bea and I had an early morning trip out the fields today. What a
beautiful time of day to be out at the farm. The sheep were
gazing on cover crops. Dan was spreading compost on our new
field. In the middle of the day it is too dusty because of our
lack of real rain for at least a month now. He’s taking advantage
of the morning dew and doing some projects before the apprentices start
work. Dan finds early morning a great time for all sorts of
projects. He’ll be up at 4:30 making plans for the day and out
the door to start them by 5. Often he makes an early morning trip
to our grain supplier or as I mentioned a while back, moves the
chickens.
Dan and his dad had a weekend trip out the Hudson Valley Garlic
Festival to stock up on garlic seed. It seems like every couple
of years we are replenishing our seed stock. This year our garlic
crop yield was not great. So we didn’t have as much as we wanted
to both plant for next year and give out to members. We usually
use our own garlic for seed, breaking the bulbs into cloves for
planting in the fall. Usually we grow a hard-neck German Porcelain. Dan
also got a new variety called Ukrainian. We’ll be planting the
garlic at the end of the month.
This week’s share: daikon radish, brussel sprouts, arugula, lettuce,
onions, garlic, butternut squash, dill, mustard or komatsuna, carrots
Remember to mark your calendars for the 13th when we’ll be having our
Pig & Potluck at the farm from 4 – 6. Hope to see you there!
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Archival Farmer Notes
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