Newsletter

  • Food Preservation

    October 20 2025 Food Preservation Though we start preserving food back in June with the extra strawberries, it intensifies as the summer progresses, and continues at breakneck speed through October. This week we…

  • Frost

    October 13 2025 Frost Frost is one of those things that centralizes the focus of most vegetable growers and orchardists. We discuss and plan for the first frost-free date each spring, and sometimes…

  • The Microbiome Labs Keynotes Symposium

    September 18-21, I spent in Nashville with daughter Ellen, at a gut biome conference. Having organized about 30 conferences in my life, it was fun to just attend and learn I was the…

  • Fall

    No Newsletter next week, September 22 – I am off to Nashville for a gut biome conference with Ellen 9/18-21 It truly is the best time of the year, in my estimation. There…

  • Asking for help

    Many of you have been following our blow-by-blow account of mishaps and misfortunes on the farm in 2025. But let me list it out again if you have missed it. The year started…