Ginger, despite all the challenges it grew
Leeks!
Fall before the frost – marigolds by several beds of covercrop, cuke vines, then younger covercrop
Covercrop close up, so lush
Lush fall cover crop
Monarch on the marigolds
Taking off a tarp to see the beautiful, soft soil. Cover cropping any open beds now to end the season.
I want to preserve this joyful marigold color all winter
Dahlia season is here!
Flowers in full bloom
Harvesting the dry pods of the cow peas, I know they are ready when I can hear them shake and the skin of the pod is feels rough
Cow peas growing – looking forward to growing more dry beans next year
“Magical Medley” mix of dry beans
Magical pods of the medley of dry beans we trialed
The end of a soggy market – thanks for still coming out Worcester!
Perfect weather for vegetables
Winter squashes coming in
I love this kale
Fall cover crop of oats, peas and hairy vetch
Friend enjoying the calendula
Sweet potato vine
The mammoth sunflowers that watch over the farm
Hello friend
Little gems
Fantastic Sunday at Market on Exchange!
Drew’s carrots
Bouquet prep
Dirt gems!
Beet transplants
Summer cover crop coming along beautifully – mix of buckwheat, tillage radish, sun hemp and millet, buzzing with bees
Lettuce mix
Salt and pepper cukes, so crunchy
Slicers
Sedona
Onion harvest, set out to cure
Lunch time, thanks for the shade bus
Irrigation wobbler makes a great perch
Two beds of cukes
Red cabbage coming along
Hello napa
The bees like the tithonia
The results of tomato pruning
Fall cabbage starts going in
Apricot Jowey Linda dahlia, yellow calendula, pink giant zinnia, blue bachelors button, purple larkspur, pink scabiosa
Dew on the dill
Market offerings – green, purple, and yellow beans
Planting lettuce heads
Mix of Little Gems lettuce heads
Some fresh garlic for market
Fall broccoli seedlings
Sphinx moth – the larval stage of this giant moth is the tomato hornworm caterpillar, an agricultural pest
Drew’s carrot of the week
Carrot tops looking lush
Flowering “Magical Medley” dry beans from Bhoomi Devi Seeds
Scallions
Red Long Onions
Thursday market at Burncoat Center for Arts and Wellness
Back to school garlic!
We grew mostly German Hardy variety of hardneck garlic
Flower season is happening! This flower is called Nigella, or Love-in-a-Mist
Hakurei turnips
Winter squash with a (mostly) clover understory
Onions were weeded (again)
Some early red long onions
First carrots!
Happy to have found a spot to put in a few sunflowers
Dahlia
Broccoli under netting
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
Flowers coming soon
After mowing and tarping, this bed is ready to be planted again
Scallion and spring onion
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
First peas coming in
Celery crop
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
Thyme
Lemon balm
Sage
Lupine from my grandmother’s garden
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
Making a comfrey tea for fertilizer
(Weedy) first carrot succession
First snap pea succession, needing a hand finding the trellis
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
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
Linocut print
Risograph prints of vegetable paintings
Stickers of vegetable paintings
Sketch in pen
Neat risograph misprint of a collage to promote earth day event
Original vegetable paintings
Learning linocut
Collage
Hand drawn zine printed with risograph
Stringing marigold garlands
Wreath made from dried flowers
Bundle dye with natural dye materials
Hand dying fabric with farm flowers
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
