Harvest Week 7, August 4th – 10th, 2020 Ruth Reichl (former editor of Gourmet Magazine, memoirist and cookbook editor) once presented on the film about my life, The Real Dirt on Farmer John.  [...]

Harvest Week 6, July 28th – August 3rd, 2020 I suppose this is a good time for a crop update, as we are now transitioning to the peak summer crops. (I confess that I was inspired today to write a [...]

Harvest Week 5, July 21st – 27th, 2020 A technician came out to the farm recently to work on a broken cooler. His pants were in shreds. “Did you buy them like that?” I asked disconcertingly. [...]

Harvest Week 4, July 14th – 20th, 2020 The Crops and the Weather The heat and rain conspire to make crops grow fast and to rot early. As unpoetic as this might sound, we race against the rot. We [...]

Harvest Week 3, July 7th – 13th, 2020 Last Monday evening, it didn’t really seem that it was rain falling on the farm; it was more like a lake falling. The air was so saturated with water [...]