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Don’t these look fantastic? I’ve been worried I wouldn’t get to see these for myself this season, but it looks like we’re finally getting a chance to get to The Farm this weekend. And the very good news is that there remains and abundance of green berries that should be turning red in the nextContinue reading “Busy Weekend Plans…Off the Grid”

We lost power this morning at about 7:45 a.m. when a storm whipped through our area. I’ve never seen our elm tree move so much and I’m relieved its healthy branches stayed attached. I stood watching the storm for a while until the hail started to pelt our house. At that point, we scooped upContinue reading “Powerless on Father's Day”

This last couple weeks of heavy rains in the Midwest is doing a job on small and large farming operations. Looks like hundreds of thousands of acres are under water. And the livestock? I haven’t heard much about the toll on that front yet. But in Iowa alone, an estimated 20 percent of the grainContinue reading “Flooding Close to Home”

Still recovering from my trip to NYC, I was headed to bed when I heard that Dickson Despommier is the guest tonight on the Colbert Report. Despommier is my vertical farming/urban farming hero so it was very cool to see him sitting with my late-night comedy hero. Not to mention that Colbert showed us aContinue reading “The Vertical Farm Report”

Here’s an incredibly balanced piece about the destruction of a community garden in an East Hampton affordable housing complex. According to the East Hampton Star, the garden was demolished not because of development. That’s what I expected when I read the headline: “Residents’ Garden Was Removed With One-Day Warning.” But apparently the residents are elderlyContinue reading “Garden Squabbles End Home-Grown Tradition”

I met this little princess on my trip out East. While farming is probably not in her near future, she’s certainly got what it takes to be a farmgirl. Besides being smart as a whip, she seems as comfortable outdoors as she does in. And one of her favorite things to do at home (besidesContinue reading “Natural Born Farmgirl”

If you haven’t yet experienced a traveling clambake, this Virtual Farmgirl highly recommends it. My gracious hosts in Westport picked up a Capt’n John’s Travelin’ Clambake in downtown Newport, just off Wall Street. I think you would’ve had to live here forever or really listen carefully to directions to be able to find the place.Continue reading “The Best Carryout Ever”

I’m headed to Connecticut and NYC. If I have a chance to check out the buy local/small farm scene, I’ll post.

So says the venerable New York Times biz section. Apparently investors are pouring billions of dollars into land, grain elevators and, no surprise, bio-fuel. The good news is that food production will increase to meet world demand. The bad news? Not sure yet. We’ll see if investors are looking to just make money by controllingContinue reading “Latest Investor Gold Rush? Farming”

One happy customer sent this photo of freshly picked strawberries from The Farm. I absolutely cannot wait to pick my own! I don’t recall ever having strawberries on The Farm when I was a kid. But I have fond memories of going raspberry picking with my grandpa. We’d tuck our long pants in our socks,Continue reading “Finally, Photo Evidence of Strawberries”