New farm project: tomato grafting. It’s not a secret that last year our tomato productivity was not great until the very last planting of the+…
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Category: Field Reports
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Ellie’s Field Report – Tomato Grafting
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Ellie’s Field Report – Learning from Elders
According to the calendar it is still Winter until late March. But lets be honest, Winter around here feels a lot like Spring in other+…
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2016 FARM UPDATES & A Love Letter to our CSA Members
We had our first big team meeting of the new year last week. We stayed on point, felt our voices heard, offered guidance, shared a+…
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Ellie’s Field Report – Tomatoes 2016!
In the summer of 2009, our first summer season, we planted many of our tomatoes in “perma-beds” at our original property. At the beginning of+…
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Ellie’s Field Report – Crow Medicine and Crop Failure
There were at least 50 crows in the tomatoes last Wednesday morning. Though it would be blazing hot by 10 am, it was still overcast+…
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Ellie’s Field Report – Creation of a Mission Statement
I recently cornered Robin and Lucila and challenged them with the task of revamping the Suzie’s Farm mission statement. I’ve been reading a lot of+…
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Ellie’s Field Report – Week of July 6th
Lettuce and chicory going to seed. This year we started native narrowleaf milkweed (Asclepias fascicularis) from seed to plant at The Grove. Milkweed is the+…
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Ellie’s Field Report – Announcement!
Announcement, announcement! We have two big announcements about our CSA! Announcement 1: After September 21st, Suzie’s Farm will offer only one CSA box size. Right+…
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Ellie’s Field Report – Week of April 27th
Noel Stehly, of Stehly Farms, was here last week talking water and wells with Robin, a hot topic among farmers these days, but soon they+…
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Ellie’s Field Report – Week of April 6th
I love flowers. The wildness of my childhood gardens used to drive my father mad. No straight lines, the paths were known only to the+…