I skipped doing a bulletin last week. I didn’t have the mental energy. If you had asked me how I was doing, my answer would have been “eh”. I was feeling somewhat down, lost in a sea of uncertainty. I… Read More ›
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AgriCulture: How to Fight a Scourge
Thursday, July 16, 2020: the last in a string of delightfully cool days punctuated by not quite enough rain showers. Eric and I, both fighting cabin fever, decided to try an outing. A talented young clarinetist, Viktor Toth of The… Read More ›
Agriculture: The Voice of Judgment
“Peter must be spinning in his grave.” That was my first response when, working at my desk Friday morning, I saw that a Turkish court had cleared the way for Hagia Sophia, the great Byzantine cathedral in Istanbul, to be… Read More ›
AgriCulture: Trusting to Deliver
Among those essential workers who have achieved considerably increased appreciation during the Covid -19 pandemic have been postal workers, who have kept delivering mail pretty well throughout. The United States Postal Service has for decades seemed threatened by obsolescence, only… Read More ›
AgriCulture: Chafing at the Long Haul, by Mark Scherzer
There are four individuals in our household with very different dietary preferences and food aversions, but it appears we are all united in our love of brassicas — cabbage, kale, brussels sprouts, broccoli, etc. It is a love I now… Read More ›
AgriCulture: Weed-Eaters
It was Thursday evening, and I assumed Eric and I would be on our own for dinner. Troy had gone to (where else?) Troy, where he has been volunteering to help build backyard vegetable gardens with Soul Fire Farm (soulfire.org),… Read More ›
AgriCulture: To Each Their Babylon
Operating in Germantown, NY for over ten years WHAT’S NEW THIS WEEK:Coriander and dill, $1/bunchOur lambs are fully reserved for July. We expect to do another batch in September. Reservations for whole or half lambs, cut to your specifications, at… Read More ›
AgriCulture: Pandexodus?
We’re falling into a comfortable rhythm, Lillie and I. Lillie is Eric’s dog, here for a several week stay as her custody is shared with her other daddy, and she is a sweet, smart creature. She knows from past visits… Read More ›
AgriCulture: Stuck in the Mud
WHAT’S NEW THIS WEEK: We are now sold out of chickens. We are arranging for the next lambs to go to market. We are hopeful the weekend storm does not set the garden back too far or kill berries and… Read More ›
AgriCulture: Six Weeks, Six Goslings, by Mark Scherzer
There are six adorable greenish yellow puffballs paddling out on and marching around our pond. Since they hatched Wednesday, these goslings have been carefully shepherded at all times by their extremely protective parents, a couple of Canadian geese. It seems… Read More ›