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Market Day #8 (August 9)

Posted on August 11, 2012 by pgabridge

We had another successful market day this past Thursday.  Tracy was actually able to come help out and see the market (and she’ll be there next week, too).  It was great fun to finally have tomatoes for sale. %%wppa%% %%slide=1%% … Continue reading →

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First World PEAS delivery

Posted on June 13, 2012 by pgabridge

Yesterday, we made our first delivery to the World PEAS Cooperative CSA.  More than 25 farmers supply produce to this venture, which then sells shares to customers.  We’re contracted to grow six different crops for them: kale, chard, snow peas, … Continue reading →

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More Seedlings

Posted on May 18, 2012 by pgabridge

Today, I picked up a car full of our seedling order from Natick Community Farm.  Now we need to harden them off and get them in the ground.  We have many varieties of peppers and tomatoes and tomatillos.  I can’t … Continue reading →

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Field Report: May 7 (plus seedlings growing fast)

Posted on May 10, 2012 by pgabridge

On Monday, I caught a break between stretches of rain and put in a day on the field before the next batch of rain.  I planted beet seeds, about 400 chard and kale seedlings, put up row cover over those … Continue reading →

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Beds, beds, beds

Posted on May 1, 2012 by pgabridge

These days, most of our time at the farm is being spent on field prep.  We’re getting pretty close to being fully ready.  We’ve spread organic fertilizer (we use Pro-Grow) on the field and worked it into the soil, as … Continue reading →

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Peas are up, and hoop house is skinned

Posted on April 15, 2012 by pgabridge

My daughter Kira and I headed up to the plot today to get a little bit of work done, and to help skin the hoop houses at the two incubator sites.  (Which just means we helped put the plastic covering … Continue reading →

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Weekly Update

Posted on April 6, 2012 by pgabridge

It’s been a quiet week, in terms of the farm.  I went by the incubator plot yesterday, just to see if the peas were up.  No luck yet.  The weather has been cool and fairly dry, so it could easily … Continue reading →

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Clean Start

Posted on March 11, 2012 by pgabridge

Right now, we’re still completely in prep mode.  This week, I took inventory of all our seed starting supplies, and then did a thorough washing of all our trays, old six packs, buckets, clear covers, dome covers, in the tub, … Continue reading →

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