Dear friends and customers, Please consider supporting Jack and Julie as we participate in the Northeast Organic Farming Association/Mass Chapter’s annual fundraiser – this year titled “Human Health and Climate Action Challenge” (we are on team “Healthy Soils”). Though Julie retired August 31 from NOFA/Mass after 36 years at the helm and Jack will be retiring from editing NOFA’s
We have sold about half of our turkeys – if you want one, it really is time to order! We raise broad breasted white turkeys from Bob’s Turkey Farm in Lancaster. We go to great pains to keep our turkeys healthy and happy. We observe low stocking numbers in their movable pens and move them
The farm is moving on from last weekend’s four consecutive frosts (Friday-Monday). Between the excessive heat of midsummer and the early coming of frost, it’s been quite the season. “Under the circumstances” Julie says “I’m modestly pleased that we are still in business and we’ll have some interesting stuff” left to enjoy over the rest of
The week began with a grape theme, with a Monday visit from Myai who came over for a grape tasting with Jack and the crew. Several years ago, Jack mentored Myai in organic grape growing through a NOFA program. Monday’s visit was in keeping with a tradition in Vietnam of bringing one’s first harvest to
This Saturday afternoon found Julie and WWOOFers Davida and Gavin out in the fields sowing fall cover crops – oats and barley, phacelia, millet, buckwheat and sunflower. The inspiration for this mixed bag of cover crops is forward-thinking agronomists like Australian soil ecologist Dr. Christine Jones. Dr. Jones advocates for farming practices that “maximize diversity in both cover crops and cash
