A Certified Naturally Grown Farm - Saint Marys, Pennsylvania
And…They’re Off!
Getting up to the Farm once a week, honestly sometimes just barely cuts it trying to keep up especially in the Spring. One week it’s “Well I can’t get to it today, I’m outta time…it’ll be ok to leave until next week” becomes on…
There’s Got To Be Another Way!
For quite some time to come, Memorial Day 2018 will in my mind bring back memories of heat, humidity and grass clippings galore! This day’s work was a back and forth mix of hand weeding directly around the hops to clear a foot…
“Winter Is ….” OK, Knock It Off!
For those not endeared to the television series “Game of Thrones”, today’s blog title may not make sense. The full statement is “Winter Is Coming” and it’s a reference to a frozen, zombie-like enemy to the heroes of the series. The phrase has now…
Time For Bed
While technically not totally finished for the 2017, the majority of the projects have been wrapped up. Harvest, processing and drying went fairly well. We’re still waiting on the new yard to really set their roots and get going. This was their first year…
“Winter Is Coming!”
Truly, Winter is coming and today it felt like it was almost upon us! Temperatures are still in the average realm for this time of year, however the winds have picked up greatly. The windspeeds are close to what I’ve felt walking these fields…
“Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!”
We’ve been changing out the bags on our Japanese beetle traps in rapid succession. Next year we’ll be adding two traps to the small yard and probably 4-5 for the big yard. This is the worst we’ve seen it since we put in the…
“Test, Test…Check 1,2…Is This Thing On?”
Ok, this post has nothing to do with an on-stage performance or mic check. It’s in regards to soil and petiole (leaf stem) testing for our soils and hops respectively. When I was trying to think of a clever title for this week’s post…
The Weeds Have Weeds!
Just a few images of our work yesterday, which can be summed up as “Damn you weeds…damn you to hell!” With such a wet Spring in combination with me able to dedicate only one day per week to make the trip up to the…
Breathing A Bit Easier
Well even though we’re still behind, we put in a good day of work that caught us up quite a bit. Show me a Farmer that doesn’t say they’re behind or that they’re “all caught up” and I’ll show you a poser 😉 Not…
Three Weeks Ago, Ahead of Schedule…Today, A Month Behind!
This has been one of THE wettest, coldest Springs I can recall in quite some time. As such, looking at the very slow growth of the hops in both yards and witnessing how extremely wet the new/large yard was, it felt like we were…
