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The weather (yes, trite, I am a farmer talking about the weather) has been incredibly ideal this spring. Which is to say it is relatively “normal” and “predictable”. Just the

…and   Farming is an occupation of always striving to do better. “Better” being a subjective word of course. It could mean better at marketing, better at production per acre,

  There is a scene in the show The Umbrella Academy where the character Number Five is tending to some plants in a glass Victorian greenhouse in an alternate timeline.

I just submitted the yearly application for organic certification for Firefly Fields. At some point in the arduous process between reviewing the thirty plus crops I am growing and going

Peanuts are a bean! Jicama are bean roots! So is liquorice. Out of the three, liquorice is the only one I am not (yet) planning on growing this year.  I

And the winners are: Sungolds! Eggplant! Tomatillos! And mini cucumbers! I am doing my crops of 2024 year in review right now (a little later than usual because I recently

  Seared almond crusted tuna with a maple ginger glaze served with sliced avocado on top of rice and a red cabbage, onion, and mango slaw with a citrus dressing

Apple tree pruning is a classic Vermont farming job, something akin to a rite of passage for most farmers here. This winter I did my first stint working for my

  I gave someone a tour of the farm the other day. When I asked them if they had any thoughts or questions at the end of it they said,

When I started the farm eight years ago, the one crop that I started with was strawberries (of the everbearing variety, also known as day-neutral.) I knew that there was