Week 8: October 29th - November 1st Yesterday, while walking in the front field, Ashley and I remarked to one another how weird it was to see a thriving field of cover crop - bright green and almost two-feet tall - as the calendar nears November. Unlike Brussels sprouts or leeks, oats and peas aren’t particularly cold-hardy. And in a typical year they would have been long dead by now, finished off by multiple frosts and freezes. And yet here we are, planning Halloween costum

Week 7: October 22nd - October 25th Every Monday for the last five months or so, a pickup truck has rolled up to the farm, driven by one of our friends over at Cimarron Community Farm. If you’re not familiar with Cimarron, it’s a small, half-acre farm just a few minutes down the road in Lake Elmo. Elise and Madeline, who manage the farm, run a free farm stand there every week, providing fresh veggies to their neighbors in the Cimarron mobile home community. And we have been t

Week 6: October 15th - October 18th When people ask what it’s like to be a farmer, one thing I often mention (among the myriad beautiful and rewarding aspects) is the endlessness of the job. There’s never a point where the work is done on the farm. The pace ebbs and flows throughout the year, but no matter the month there’s always more weeding to do, more equipment to repair, more supplies to organize, or more planning that could be done. As a result, the endpoints to farming