today
Thyme
Lemon balm
Sage
Lupine from my grandmother’s garden
Lettuce heads in progress
Dahlias popped
Broccoli under insect netting
Scallions
Salad mix
Two beds of second carrot succession, lettuce, scallion, red long
Arugula in netting but still getting flea beetle damage
Parsley coming soon
(Weedy) first carrot succession
First snap pea succession, needing a hand finding the trellis
Our first beet succession
Green beans, and some purple and yellow too
Garlic looking gorgeous
Five beds of onions
Leeks freshly planted
Drew poking holes for leeks borrowing Free Living Farm’s hand made leek dibbler
Drew at the Market on Exchange
Garlic growing
The second field we are farming. Here onions are planted, and potatoes, a section is cover cropped and will soon be planted to sweet potato. And the tarped section will be winter squashes. We will have to protect them from the deer!
Potatoes pushing through the straw mulch
There are potatoes in there!
Planted 11 50′ beds of potatoes
These beds have scallion and red long onion transplants
Making a comfrey tea for fertilizer
Cardboard + woodchips in half the house
Mowed clover, added cardboard, topped with woodchips
Clover fulling grown
Make-shift seed house
Onions
Clover cover crop germinating
Hoop house after tarping for a season
Making space for our tool storage
Early seeded trays, mostly alliums. We made this table with free cinder blocks and broken shelves picked from the trash.
yesterday
artwork
our roots
Marissa sharing lettuce with chickens at Many Hands Organic Farm
Angus eating Drew’s hair at Red Goat Farm
Marissa weeding lettuce at Many Hands Organic Farm
Marissa on the crew at Many Hands Organic Farm
Drew helping Gary reach the spruce at Red Goat Farm
Drew herding cows at Oxford Farms
Marissa and Drew working at Hannan Agro Farms
Marissa and Drew packing corn at Boston Area Gleaners
Boston Area Gleaners 2020 Apprentices
Drew weeding at Farmer Dave’s
Marissa installing a native edible garden in Philadelphia
Marissa teaching square foot gardening at Backyard Growers
