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Why use an automatic coop door for your chicken flock? With so many moving parts on a farm, it’s so nice to automate a few features to keep our animals…
Peppers, peppers, who wants peppers?! This year we grew a few different varieties of sweet peppers - your traditional bell pepper that starts green and eventually turns to red (but…
Is there really a "right" way to harvest your produce? After putting the time and effort into planning your garden, starting your seeds, and nurturing your plants, you want it…
How do I successfully transplant my seedlings? A while back we shared tips related to starting your garden plants from seed. But, that’s just the first step on the road…
How do you measure the quality of your produce? Based on our experience in grocery stores and restaurants, it seems most consumers measure quality of food on three premises: size,…
What we aim to do As a family farm, our goal has always been to grow high quality food for our family and share the bounty with our community. Over…
What is a shoulder season exactly? We are already ankle deep in the spring shoulder season. In our context, the shoulder seasons can best be described as the periods gradually…
Farm conference season This is the time of year for fixing broken tools, reading books, educating children, and of course, attending a farm conference. We had the good fortune of…
Questions to get you started After you've determined your goals for gardening and mapped out your space, you arrive at the fun (but overwhelming!) process of picking out seeds. There…
Pastured poultry out in the field In a slight variation on our seed to plate series, we'll take you out into the pasture to show you our chicken operations. We…