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At market: June 5, 2008
We’re looking forward to another exciting harvest for market this week, including some new items … Fava beans ~ $3 bag (2 lb.) New this week! Spring sweet onions ~ $2 bunch New this week! Baby bok choy ~ $4 … Continue reading
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Congratulations, Molly!
Our friend and former workshare volunteer, Molly Barth, recently won a Grammy for her collaboration and performance on Eighth Blackbird’s 2007 album: Strange Imaginary Animals. Congratulations, Molly!!!!!!! On a sad note, for us: Molly and her husband Phil (who also … Continue reading
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First day at 2008 market was awesome!
Yesterday was the McMinnville Farmers Market opening day for 2008. It was a great day! Good sales; good people; good food. Here’s our booth, just before market started: In addition to catching up with all our regular market customers, we … Continue reading
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Market opens tomorrow!
The 2008 McMinnville Farmers Market begins tomorrow, Thursday, May 29! Market runs from 1:30 – 6:30 and is located downtown on Cowls St, between 2nd and 3rd streets. You’ll find our booths about halfway down Cowls St, in front of … Continue reading
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More advice for wannabe farmers
Rich of Mossback Farm just wrote a GREAT POST about starting a farm. If you’re even remotely thinking about it, read his post NOW! This evening I also ran across a second fabulous post about buying land on The Living … Continue reading
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More planting!
We planted again on Wednesday with much more success than so far this season. The ground prep went better — still somewhat cloddy but a big improvement over the first two rounds of planting. Here are some photos of the … Continue reading
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Drängen photos!
The much awaited photos of our new-to-us Drängen … to begin with, here is the Drängen just after Casey finished adjusting it for our purposes: The much larger farm we purchased this from had it set up for four riders … Continue reading
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While we wait …
… to be able to plant once again, we’re continuing to work on other projects. The big project of the past two weeks was completed much earlier than we anticipated. We bought a Drängen! How were we able to accomplish … Continue reading
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Field trip to Persephone Farm
Rain, rain, go away … we had a brief respite last week from the rain — long enough to crudely prep some ground and plant twelve beds. But, it was definitely a rough finish, & the planting was not altogether … Continue reading
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Muddy mud
Our friend Rich of Mossback Farm wrote a great blog post about mud & livestock management. A must read for anyone who either has livestock or eats meat. Lots of think about in terms of health. Whenever we visit he … Continue reading
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