Farm and baby minutiae
July 2025: east garden planted into long-season crops. Back in 2022, I shared my then-new permanent garden bed system, detailing the transition process, and why I decided to pivot so drastically into a new mode of operation. Those new beds have now seen four growing seasons – each with wildly different weather events, from drought […]
Bed evolution
I was told (by a much more experienced vegetable grower) that it would take around five years for the farm to feel like a Farm. By Farm, he meant an operation that, well, operates, as opposed to undergoing constant change in how things are done and what tools are used, all the while plagued with […]
On growing things
Selling vegetables at a farmers’ market isn’t normally a polarizing affair. But I do have a distinct memory of a man who picked up a bunch of green onions off my table and contemptuously tossed them back at me, telling me that he could get three times as many onions at the price I was […]