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
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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
May first, 5:24 in the morning. The birds are chirping madly outside despite the wind and rain. Like the birds, I have already been “madly” at work for the
As I was just digging a trench along the edge of a new greenhouse I am constructing (of which will be detailed in a future post), I was listening to
With intentions to keep up the blog over the summer, I did not set the time aside to do just that. Finding the right balance of the day to day