Life on the Farm

what a season, this one is for the record books

Field notes

We started the year in a high note, warner than normal temperatures in the spring.

We need food, we need farms, real farms, growing real food!

Field 1

Then the rain came and stayed with us until the middle of June along with high temperatures. There were days I thought I would melt in the field. We could not get any equipment into our large field because of the wet weather, so we left that field fallow. The photos above are what the field normally looks like. The photo to the left, is the 2025 growing season.

Tomatoes

Tomatoes went into the field the first part of May. Good rain got them off to a good start.

We staked, fertilized, no watering Mother Nature did a great job and then the heat arrived, and the tomatoes struggled, once they started ripening. The vines started dying early and yield greatly decreased.

Spring Mix

We started lettuce in the greenhouse in March and heaped a bumper crop. It grew faster than we could sell it. Once the heat arrived the lettuce started to bolt, so a donation was in order. Several pounds went to a location food bank.

Peppers

Not great, the heat has caused bloom drop, so far yields are down

Support your local farms, we had a drought in the fall and now a crazy weather this summer. Farmers' need your support, buy local make your dollars count.