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This weekend a I traveled with some of my wife’s friends to the “Rally to Restore Sanity” near the Washington Monument. John Stewart first joked about the crazy divisions within America’s political rhetoric and then got serious that despite it all American’s can get along and not just angrily lash out at each other with undeserved and inflammatory ( Read more... ) -
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It's been a long time since I published anything on this existential void of an internet journal. Mainly because I've been so busy out in the real world that I've barely had time to think about writing pretty much anything anywhere. I've been married now for six months and so am still navigating the everyday action of continuing to learn how to ( Read more... ) -
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My third year as a farm manager is starting. This past week I fired up the tractor, hooked up the chisel plow, and started working some ground where I plan on planting lettuces, chard, and kale in about a month. Now it's raining outside and I wish I would have got more done. But, this farm isn't the only thing I'm working on. I'm currently trying ( Read more... ) -
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I haven't updated in awhile. Part of the reason for this is just that I've been more busy now than I think I've ever been in my life. Workwise, while the season has slowed down some I'm still busy. I was able to grow the csa I manage from about 80 members a week to over ninety and next year I plan on starting out at 105 in May. Also, this year's ( Read more... ) -
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It's been a lazy Sunday, which I guess is not bad. I'm finding it difficult to believe that my second season of managing a CSA is almost finished. Overall I feel really good about how the season went. Of course, I still have a bit of field clean up and a bunch of misc. projects but I feel like things have wound down. I currently have only one more ( Read more... ) -
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In my last few posts I really feel like I've been romanticizing farming. The ironic part about that is how even during the short time I've been doing this I feel like I've gone through more unromanticizing phases than actual romanticizing times ( Read more... ) -
foreshadowing summer's end
My summer intern packed up her bags yesterday and left for graduate school. August is rushing to a close with a landslide of tomatoes, peppers, and squash drowning us all. The first of the delicatta winter squash are ripening and the cherry tomatoes in the green house are now about 7-8 feet tall. The CSA harvests this season have been awesome. So ( Read more... ) -
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Bad Day on Farm = irrigation hose getting caught in tractor tiller and in the process knocking over a good portion of sweet corn then having to replace the main manifold for irrigation in the field + raining at inopportune times + the dog carrying around someones used tampons (where'd he get those? Do I want to know?)