After market
Around 1:25 p.m. and it’s just about time to head out from the farmers’ market, which officially ends at 1. This season, we’ve been storing the entire farm stand in the communal cage where vendors can...
View ArticleTiny Farm vs Elton John
Tiny Farm vs Elton John: Senior rock star has decided to take his tour to smaller towns. It’s 7 a.m. in the on and off pouring rain, and we’re set up a few feet from a half dozen semis and … Read the...
View ArticleWinter market: third week!
Third week of our first winter farmers’ market and it’s going great. So far, the weather hasn’t been bad, so it doesn’t seem entirely radical to have freshly harvested greens and carrots this late in...
View ArticleSalad box planning
Rise of the Salad Box: First meeting, with Rochelle and artist Shannon, on design details for our salad box project. Yes, it’s simple coolers, to be converted into standalone salad dispensers, with an...
View ArticleSalad kale!
Salad kale! Tiny, tender leaves, it’s our finest kale!! Production is simple: fast-growing Red Russian flat leaf kale is direct seeded, plants tightly crowded in-row, restricting growth and producing...
View ArticleNeither rain, nor sleet, nor snow
Beets, carrots, sunchokes: 8 am, second Saturday of the indoor winter market, freezing rain and flurries outside, it’s cool to be under cover..… Read the rest
View ArticleA carrot day at the market
Carrots at the farmers’ market: One or two crops always seem to do particularly well, but different ones every week. Explanation: unknown. Today is a carrot day. … Read the rest
View ArticleFarmers’ market tool
Blogged about before, still in service (no dirt streaks or coffee spills so far), it’s the original, the very first Last One sign (I’m pretty sure it is), brilliant sales tool (nearly 100%...
View ArticleBack to the market!
First day of the season at the outdoor farmers’ market. It’s not a particularly early start, the market goes outside on the first Saturday of May. In any case, here we are once again, this time around...
View ArticleFirst winter harvest
Yesterday’s harvest that went to today’s farmers’ market, my earliest market start by almost two months! From the unheated greenhouse: kale, green and red mustard, and lettuce mix times two. Harvest...
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