REPORTS FROM THE FIELD (Westminster) We are preparing for the annual Jamaican Independence Day party on our farm, attended by Jamaican workers from around the area. On the menu: curried goat and rice, and the Jamaican goat soup, mannish water. Things couldn’t be much better, weather-wise. Dry weather has been interspersed with just the right …
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HOT WEATHER GUIDANCE FOR FARMING Here are reminders to keep you, your family and employees safe; this guidance is from more detailed articles by University of Wisconsin and Michigan State University. Steps to take to reduce heat stress: · Plan strenuous tasks for cooler times of the day – morning or early evening. · Help …
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(Underhill) A cool and damp spring pushed the sweet corn schedule back about a week. We’re trying some transplanted and direct seeded in bioplastic this year to try to get corn sooner than August. The transplants are looking good so far. Pumpkin planting looks to remain on schedule after this next cool weekend. Some of …
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REPORTS FROM THE FIELD (Westminster) After five or six days of encouraging warm weather, everything just stopped. Beets were emerging but they haven’t grown a centimeter in the last few days. And the asparagus still hasn’t shown itself. We managed to not freeze the sweet corn in the cold frames and have several plantings in …
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REPORTS FROM THE FIELD (Westminster West) Although we don’t aim to store crops over winter, those we did stored really well in the insulated barn with just enough heat to keep above freezing. Squash, onions and garlic have been amazing, half a bin of pie pumpkins too! Tunnel garlic is emerging under row cover. We …
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