Calendar and Miscellanea
Here you can find information on what we're up to and what we're planning, as well as a basic overview of the farm season.
January 2012
-Planning, planning, planning! We spend the winter planning seed order, livestock needs, CSA needs, updating organic certification paperwork, and attending farming conferences.
February-April 2012
-Seeding, seeding, seeding! Stop by the farm and you'll most likely find me in the greenhouse. With any luck, we can start direct field planting in April! Wish for a small snow pack (sorry ski industry!)
-piglets-a-plenty!
-Strong CSA sales will enable us to put up a high tunnel in our upper field, ensuring delicious summer fruits and colorful winter greens
-Pick up hams, lamb, and beef roasts for Easter dinner!
May 2012
-Vegetables are in full swing! Lots of seeding and transplanting
-In from the field: radishes, lettuce, beets
-May 5?: First Summer Burlington Farmer's Market
June 2012
-Weekly chicken harvest underway
-Perhaps the busiest vegetable month? Seeding and transplanting at full swing!
-In from the field: greens, radishes, kohlrabi, scallions, zucchini and summer squash, green beans
-June 12: First C.S.A. distribution
July 2012
-Actually, maybe July is the busiest vegetable month? Serious transplanting and cultivating taking place. Stay ahead of the weeds for a few more weeks!
-In from the field: peas, new potatoes, greens, radishes, baby carrots, bunching onions, tomatoes, green beans
August 2012
-In from the field: Holy vegetable bounty! Tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, tomatillos, summer squash, greens, beans, alliums, fennel, potatoes, beets, kohlrabi, sweet corn, SWEET CORN, watermelon, WATERMELON etc.
September 2011
-really just an extension of August's goodness, hopefully with some rain included... but no more hurricanes. Please.
-Arugula, mustards, and hakurei turnips come into their own, now that flea beetles have subsided
-second Beef harvest
-In from the field: get out those freezer bags and ball jars! Time to put up tomato sauce, dilly beans, and grated zucchini for those leaner winter days
October 2012
-In from the field: potatoes arrive in earnest, winter squash will make an appearance, fall greens become magical: cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli, and collards, oh my! Brussels sprouts, beets, so many radishes, gold ball turnips, rutabaga, and so much more. Spinach, arugula, Jack-O-lanterns, fennel, so much, so much!!
November 2011
-In from the field: We've got Thanksgiving dinner covered. Gobble gobble. Order a Thanksgiving share: turkey, roots, greens, and whatever you need for dinner.
December 2012
-In from the field: your Christmas goose, tired farmers, LOTS of greens if Fall 2011 is any measure of our changing climate.