This weekend was the official start to canning and preserving! I spent 2 hours in the garden this morning pruning tomatoes, removing dead an...

We got rain; two and a half inches but a little too fast for my taste. There was some erosion around the farm but it was minimal at best. Ha...

The hot and humid weather from last week is gone but the crops certainly liked the heat. The corn outside my window is tall enough that I ca...

Every once in a while, my husband accidentally runs something over with the lawn mower, usually because the grass has grown so long we’ve bo...

We’re busy; that’s for sure! The pollination crew started last week and the fence crew starts this week. The weeds, insects and diseases are...

Cultivating Radishes Pruning Tomatoes Removing row covers Removing another row cover from squash plants

We love our customers. We especially love it when our customers send us great pictures of the products that they grow from Johnny's Sele...

At least we’re not irrigating! With three inches of rain last week we won’t need to irrigate for a while. That’s the good part; now for the ...

Treating cucurbits with Surround, Entrust, and Golden Pest Spray Oil

Wow, I can't believe it's July already! I've got almost everything planted in the garden, and my beans, squash, and corn are lo...

Work continues at a feverish pace on the farm. Lots to do: tomatoes to trellis and prune, weeding and cultivating all our crops, cover crops...

Transplanting tomatoes into the hoophouse. Putting up the new hortonova as a temporary fence. Thinning carrots. Distributing ladybugs for ...

The planting is 99% complete and now all we have to do is take care of everything. Weeds are an ever present challenge as you well know. Tod...

Whoops, time got away from me! When summer showed up last weekend and really drove the garden guilt into high gear. The tomato plants have...

Transplanting, that’s what’s new. Well, not really new, but we’re pretty busy doing it right now! Tuesday we did the pumpkin trial and works...

Ben Wilcox in Customer Service has provided this wonderful succession planting guide. This reference will help you keep your garden providi...

From the Kennebec Journal editorial pages, 6/09/2008. We're all thrilled for Rob to receive this well-deserved reward! On Thursday after...

WHAT’S NEW AT THE FARM? 6/4/08 BLM Planting season is in full swing on the farm. Last week we transplanted peppers, tomatoes and eggplant. W...

We received a little bit of rain this week, but not enough to do any good. It’s getting quite dry and we’ve been irrigating for the past cou...

It is so nice to stay home for one day on the weekend to catch up on all of those things that need doing in the garden. After spending Satu...