Our flower garden is full of butterflies, bees, bumblebees, ladybugs and dragonflies… and we love it! Harvesting arugula. Sunflower shoots. This lettuce will be ready for next week. Chard Curly kale We had to rip out the zucchini already, they…
Did you enjoy the sunflower shoots? We sure did. We’ve been eating them with every meal. We especially love having them with our morning eggs. They are incredibly nutrient dense and I’m glad we have them going again so Ara…
That’s the arugula we harvested this week! The yield was great, so everyone is getting huge bags of arugula. We also had a great harvest of sunflower shoots, too bad I waited till dark to get a picture of the…
We had an amazing basil harvest and thanks to a post harvest handling process we learned from the new herb module in the Neversink Farm course, it lasted a long time! Instead of picking individual leaves the night before distribution…
Do you remember when you used to sign up for our CSA through a Google form? All of those entries were compiled in a lengthy spreadsheet. I would sort the entries and add the emails manually to a tag on…
Our first fish order for the pool pond included 40 mosquito fish and 11 shubunkin goldfish. After having so much fun watching them, we wanted more fish, so we ordered 24 more shubunkin goldfish. We now have 35 of them….
The flowers are really starting to bloom! Zinnias and oats. Ara’s first dahlia. Celosia. Marigold. Bachelor’s Button AKA Cornflower. Snapdragons and more in the background. Nasturtiums. Tulsi basil and Genovese basil. The Vego Garden is looking good. All these beds…
Those are the first bouquets for our first ever flower CSA addon! They have sunflowers, zinnias, yarrow, mint, oats and a few other things. Mr. Fangs was hanging out in the flower garden with us where we have this lovely…
In this post I show how we planted some summer crops and built trellises for them. Let’s begin with this eggplant that we started from seed on February 1. We potted them up in March to buy us more time….
A tree frog climbed onto the arm of Ara’s chair. They are surprisingly friendly! A nice crop of swiss chard for this week’s CSA shares. Carrots ready for harvest. Japanese taro in the bog filter. Worm bin, nasturtiums, tomatoes and…