We woke up Saturday to around 30 inches of snow and a crumpled greenhouse. Our "megatunnel," as we affectionately call it, is the heart of our winter growing operation. This summer it was also our s ...

Well, the drought is officially over after several inches of rain fell in an hour on Friday and then again on Saturday. The fields are drying out now and we're back to the usual business of harvesting ...

Tropical Storm Irene delivered some pretty serious weather over the weekend and the verdict is: it could have been a lot worse. Compared to what we imagined, and compared to the raging rivers to our  ...

A farmer griping about the weather is a cliché for sure. I try not to dwell too much on the weather on this blog, but today I can't help myself. Without a doubt, this year's cycle of winter givin ...

The recent break from the never-ending heat wave of 2010 (is it really finally over?) has us thinking about winter. Summer is barely over and yet all our thoughts are trained on that cold horizon: how ...

Summer has burned itself out early. Whether or not the hot weather returns after this rainy spell, our summer crops are pretty well played out. It was a fantastic run, but its inevitable end is near a ...

Wow. It's hot. There are weeds everywhere. It must be July. This year the weather seems determined to distinguish itself against that of last year. Mostly, this makes me happy. The two past seasons  ...

Jack Frost may soon be nipping at our basil and peppers, but we say, "Bring it on." Fall is an amazingly abundant time of year, and we have no less variety in this season than we had at the height of  ...

Summer came and went in about 2 weeks this year. If it hadn't been so dreadfully humid, we might not have even noticed. At the end of summer, you can tell what summer was like by looking at the heat-l ...

This past week was another big one.  We did a a major planting of broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, fennel, beets, turnips, and lettuce.  We harvested a barnful of onions, a pretty strenuous a ...

You have probably heard the reports going around about the tomato blight: entire crops decimated in a matter of days, farmers mowing down their tomato patches or discarding infected plants in trash ba ...

 After a restless night listening to the pounding rain, we awoke Friday morning to the most flooded field we had ever seen.  We rubbed our eyes and stared.  Yep, it was real.  The ...

What a deluge! A week or so ago, we needed rain.  The first storm we got was necessary; the second, the third, the fourth...well, not so much.  We started reaching the too much rain point a  ...