This past week we were blessed by a group called SERVE. This group came to the farm for three days helping with weeding, bug picking, trellising and manure spreading. Loads of weeds were pulled, the fields have never looked better, and 1.5lbs of bugs were hand picked! Thank you for your help SERVE! Here are…
Category: Field Work
Planting Squash on Hill Top
Between the rain showers we manage to get all our winter squash and pumpkins planted up in the field at Hill Top. Extra hands made quick work of the the 8 flats of perfect seedlings all ready to get into the ground. We look forward to a great pumpkin harvest this year!
Fall Harvest
Fall leaves, blue skies, crisp air…pumpkin harvest! Nothing says fall more than these. All the pumpkins and winter squash are safe in the barn with the help of many hands! In a matter of just over an hour we had the field picked clean. Thanks to family and friends for their help!
Squash Planting
Today, on the hottest day yet of the year, we spent the morning planting a variety of squash and pumpkins. These we plant off site on a near by picturesque hill top. Half of the field is planted with squash transplants while the other is seeded with a cover crop of buckwheat. Enjoy some pictures…
Squash Harvest
Nothing says fall like bushels of pumpkins and squash! After a disappointing growing season last year, we moved our pumpkin/squash patch to a nearby hill top. They grew wonderfully in their new sunny, warm location! With many helping hands, we harvested the entire field and have stored the bounty away to slowly distribute in the…
Planting Time!
As much as we love snow, we were very eager to see it leave and the bare ground appear. The promise of spring is everywhere as bulbs of various kinds sprout. Bulbs of our own (Garlic) that we planted last fall is already showing its leaves. The ground is still wet, but we were very…
A Fall Planting
While most crops are gearing down for the winter, garlic is gearing up! This past week we prepared a bed of garlic, some 300ft. We planted two varieties of hardneck garlic. Marino (a purple) and German (a porcelain). The 10lbs of heads filled our bed with only a few cloves to spare. A grass and…
Buckwheat
The first field of Abundance Acres was tilled a few weeks ago. The farm is already reaping an abundance of rocks and roots as these fields have been covered in forest for the past 80 years. After tilling an harrowing we planted buckwheat for weed suppression, ground cover and biomass production. We hope that this…
Asparagus Mulching
As the new asparagus shoots get established, so have the weeds. To stay ahead of the weeds we laid several layers of newspaper on the freshly weeded soil and then covered it with 2 cut hay. We hope that this mulching will help eliminate weeds. We also added some lime to the soil since it…
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