today
Thursday market at Burncoat Arts and Wellness
Back to school garlic!
Garlic harvest laid out to start the curing process
We grew mostly German Hardy variety of hardneck garlic
Flower season is happening! This flower is called Nigella, or Love-in-a-Mist
Some early red long onions
Winter squash with a clover understory
Onions were weeded (again)
First carrots!
Happy to have found a spot to put in a few sunflowers
Dahlia
Broccoli under netting
Green beans are flowering now
Scallions coming in
Petersham Farmers Market
Second carrot succession looking incredible
Curly cukes
We are in the season of bed flipping now which means harvesting the crop, mowing any leftover weeds, then tarping for a week or so
Second pea succession coming on now
Market on Exchange
Flowers coming soon
Second green bean succession
After mowing and tarping, this bed is ready to be planted again
Scallion and spring onion
Kale, swiss chard, red rover radishes
Lupine continues blooming
Celery, see you in the fall
Lupine bloom
Potatoes looking good at our satellite field
Weeding the onions, view from the leeks
Onions starting to bulb up
End of another long June day
First peas coming in
Celery crop
Greenbeans growing up, will have to take off their netting once they start to flower
Snap peas flowering
Spring onions
Young swiss chard
Young broccoli plant
Second carrot succession
Winter squash planted just before some rain
Toyota Rav 4 has been the best farm truck – off to plant these 400 winter squash
Using landscape fabric to mulch the sweet potato, keeps the soil warmer
Just before we weeded these onions, Drew is hoeing the leeks
Hoop house with the shade cloth
Cabbages
Kale under insect netting
Head lettuce soaking up the sun rays
Drew playing with irrigation
Lettuce harvest
Pea from cover crop, a nitrogen fixing legume
Nodules of the pea from cover crop mix
Vetch blooming
Potatoes enjoying their mulch
Onions, bed 4 of 5
Planting tomato! Drew drilling planting holes through woodchips and cardboard mulch
Tomato planted deeply underneath cardboard and woodchips
Rich compost for each tomato
Shade cloth on our storage side
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
