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August 13th, 2010 by Ned Conwell
While you won’t be able to tell that it’s August on the coast by the amount of sun we’re getting, you will be able to tell the season by the slowing strawberry harvest. This is the first week we aren’t ...
August 5th, 2010 by Ryan Casey
Over the next few weeks you’ll notice a slight change in the contents of your CSA boxes. We are shifting from spring/summer crops into late summer/fall crops. Each week as the new crops mature in the field, new items will ...
July 29th, 2010 by Ned Conwell
It’s July and things are getting very busy here on the farm. Some of my friends compare this time of year to a dance. A typical week for me begins on Monday and looks like this: First, everything gets fertigated ...
July 22nd, 2010 by Ryan Casey
A friend recently asked me, “So when you finish this apprenticeship, do you get a certificate of some sort, or is it just something to add to your résumé?” I’ve known all along I’m not here to get a piece ...
July 15th, 2010 by Ryan Casey
We have been very busy with the tomatoes during the last two weeks. Here are some quick, rough stats on what it takes to pull off 2.5 acres of tomatoes: 30,000 plants, 20,000 square feet of frost cloth, 1,500 wooden ...
July 9th, 2010 by Ned Conwell
One of the most frequently asked questions I get is, “how do you control all of your pests?” And the answer is, “it depends.” It is important to remember that, except for the past 100 years, organic farming has been ...
July 3rd, 2010 by Ryan Casey
Mark your calendars for our annual Strawberry Festival at Blue House Farm!
July 18, 2010
2-6PM
July 1st, 2010 by Ryan Casey
I love spending rainy winter days leafing through seed catalogues. The majority of the seed orders happen in the winter months when time is available for planning. Every November the seed catalogues start arriving in the mail. At that time, ...
June 24th, 2010 by Ned Conwell
The Blue House Farm is a two truck, one tractor and eight person farm. Just yesterday at market I told a customer that we grow, “real food for real people by real people”. Each and every root, shoot, flower, leaf ...
June 17th, 2010 by Ryan Casey
This afternoon we finished planting the last of the tomatoes. We plant three successions of tomatoes, starting with 7,000 seedlings on April 15th, followed by a planting of 5,000 more on May 15th, and finally another 3,000 on June 15th. ...