Ok folks, tomato season has arrived. I’m here to tell you how and why we package tomatoes the way we do. We put a single tomato or multiple tomatoes in a pint or quart container. Our farm label is on the outside of each container and there is a price listed on it. That is… Continue reading Please don’t Squish the Tomatoes!
Category: nutrient dense system
Things are Heating Up
We had our first Tilton Farmer’s Market last Tuesday which was fantastic. We are prepping for our second one now. Lots of baking going on at the beginning of the market season. Just a reminder if you want a guaranteed baked good, you should place your order through Hot Plate. We will have yours reserved… Continue reading Things are Heating Up
Our Resources for our Zone 5b Garden
Read below to see our resources for our Zone 5b garden. We also go a little bit into nutrient-dense farming.  Seeds We buy our seeds in December/January for the following year’s growing season. By doing this, you have a better chance of getting the seeds you want. We always look for non-GMO seeds and organic options. Mostly,… Continue reading Our Resources for our Zone 5b Garden
Resources
As 2023 comes to a close, the seed catalogs begin to pour in and the visions of next year’s gardens start to form. We have put together a page on our website for reference to things we do and companies we recommend. Take a look when you plan your 2024 gardens. https://www.stillseekingfarm.com/constulting-services Happy planning.
CSA Sign Ups Ending Soon…
OK folks, if you’ve procrastinated and put it off, now is the time to pick a CSA. Yep there are tons out there. How do you decide? Our CSA is a bit different from the standard ones out there. A little bit about ours: We are stewards of the soil. We feed the soil what… Continue reading CSA Sign Ups Ending Soon…
HEALTH & NEW YEAR
Happy 2018!!!!. Lots of info in here. Please read. Happy New Year! We got a jump start on 2018 by starting last month analyzing our year and what we hope to accomplish in 2018. Many changes are in store for us, some we can’t quite let out of the bag yet. As you already may… Continue reading HEALTH & NEW YEAR
SOIL
We were proud to contribute a soil sample for this study. Shows how important farming organically over conventional is. www.organic-center.org/humicrelease
Garden work
Sunday we were in the garden all day adding carbon (compost) and amendments to the soil. Amendments are useless without a carbon source to hold it in the soil. One main reason chemical farming doesn’t work. It burns all the carbon as well.
Soil Class
Here it a class by the man himself, Dan Kittridge on how we do what we do with our soil. If anyone out there wants to grow like we do. Here is the link for more information. http://www.meetup.com/North-Shore-Metro-West-Bionutrient-Food-Association/events/220578467/?a=ea1_grp&rv=ea1
What we’ve been up to
Keith and I just got back from a 3 day conference in Somerville, MA attending our second Soil and Nutrition Conference. We had the pleasure of listening to Graeme Sait and his colleague, Joel Williams speak about soil health and human health. They both are from Australia. Graeme began his talk about the reason he… Continue reading What we’ve been up to
