Frog Bottom Farm » spring

Gearing up

Lisa — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:48:06 +0000

That’s right! Around here it is all cool misty mornings (the fear of frost still not quite past) and warm sunny days (with plenty of spring-rain-just-when-we’re-ready-to-transplant-all-that-kale) and nights full of frogsong; a riot of redbuds and wisteria and dogwood and viburnum in the woods and a greenhouse filling just as rapidly with tomato, parsley, basil, oregano, sage, kale, broccoli, leek, scallion, eggplant, sweet pepper, beet, and chard seedlings; new building projects; and one young rooster trying to make sense of it all.

We are all in spring scramble mode, trying to get everything in place before our new piglets arrive next week, before our new laying hens arrive later in the month, and especially before our market season begins this week and our CSA season begins in late May!

Learning to juggle

Lisa — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:24:46 +0000

Well! It’s been nearly a month since our last post here. Looks like our big plans for more recipes, cookbook giveaways, more interviews, an easy-to-use recipe index, and discussion forums are taking some time to implement. We’re still learning to juggle the start of the CSA season and life with a toddler.

Things have been busy over at the farm Facebook page though! We encourage you to check in there regularly to share your recipe ideas, get ideas from other CSA members and market customers, and enjoy some more snapshots of our farm season. You don’t even have to have a Facebook account!

We hope to be back later in the week with some tasty ideas for using cucumbers. (In the meantime, our “How to be cool as a cucumber” post should help.) And until then: some photos from the last month.

“In spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”

Lisa — Fri, 27 May 2011 20:17:35 +0000

And boy, do we! We smell like dirt plus some.

We used that Margaret Atwood quote right about this time last year, and we’ll probably be saying it to ourselves again come June 2012. Our farmers market season started a few weeks ago. Our CSA starts next week! And the story all spring long has been rain rain rain. So in between thunderstorms, we scramble and sweat to get as many beds tilled, as many seedlings planted, as much compost spread, and as many rows weeded as we possibly can. It’s kind of hard to believe Eric, Shannon, Tim, and Ali, along with James, Josh, Troy, and Matt, are still standing.

We have lots of fun plans in mind for this space this season: more interviews, more (and better organized) recipes, a monthly cookbook giveaway.

But for now, there are tomatoes to stake. And chard to pick. And lettuce to wash. And two trucks to load. So I’ll let the pictures do the talking, and we’ll see you here again soon!

(One small piece of business: the CSA starts next week, so if you or a friend has been thinking about joining – you’ve still got time! Sign up here.)

(Do you know you can click on any of these pictures to see them large? Kinda fun.)

Last week in pictures

Lisa — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:10:08 +0000

Last week in pictures

Lisa — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:07:27 +0000

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” *

Lisa — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:15:51 +0000

Just a quick peek into how we’ve been keeping ourselves busy these last few months. We’ll try to start every week in similar fashion here on the blog — a photographic look back at the week before. Hope you’ll join us!

* Thanks to Margaret Atwood for the reminder.

At season’s start (a peek)

Lisa — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:58:29 +0000

And like THAT!, our winter’s rest is over and the farm has come alive again. Here’s a little bit of what’s been filling our days in recent weeks. We have lots of things in store for the blog this season, so come visit often!