Fritillary Farm

Come see us this Saturday the 22nd for out largest market of the season. We will have the following produce:
Orange sweet potatoes
Gold sweet potatoes
Purple sweet potatoes
Highlander onions
Winter squash
Frosted blue collards
Curly kale
Tuscan kale
Mustard greens
Head lettuce
Radicchio
Leeks
Rainbow carrots
Rainbow beets
Watermelon radishes
Purple daikon radishes
Easter egg radishes
French breakfast radishes
Gold turnips
Hakurei turnips
Rutabagas
Fennel
Kohlrabi
Jersey cabbage
Tendersweet cabbage
Napa cabbage
Baby bok choy
Slicing tomatoes
Sungold cherry tomatoes
Sweet peppers
Poblanos
Eggplant

Had a nice break from the farm earlier this month. Sometimes, it's good to just step away from everything and let your mind rest. Here's a few photos from Mendocino and San Francisco, CA. Thanks to my aunt Winnie and Andy in Mendo for letting me visit. Also, thanks Wolfman and Jeff in the Bay Area that let me stay at their places.

We are crushing this fall on the farm, and im sorry that I dropped off the gram for a bit. Oddly enough, in my opinion, summer is the hardest season to farm. It always takes a toll on me. There are high expectations, higher chances of crop failures, and just higher degrees of burnout.

Ill be back posting here to get you all informed again. Thank you all for your support, and come see us this Saturday, November 22nd, for all your fresh, sustainably grown Thanksgiving Veggies.

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Sadly, today I had to let go of my best friend and farm companion. Riley and I found our ways into eachothers lives on my 22nd birthday and have supported each other for the past 15 years. He was with me when I started my agriculture journey on New Earth Farm in 2012. He moved with me to North Carolina when I went to school for sustainable agriculture and finally made it to live on our own farm for his last five years.

He was my world and will be greatly missed out here.

I will not personally be at market Saturday, I will be on a hike with some friends that new him and to get so closure. However, the farm will be at Saturday, so please come out and support us and the local vendors that pour our hearts and souls in to what we do.

Its okay to hate the tunes, but take a second to appreciate the process.

This is what starting transplants looks like weekly on the farm. First, I start with filling winstrip seed trays with FoxFarm Ocean Forest soil. Then, using a seed flat dribbler, I put small indents in each soil cell. Finally it's time to seed.

New seed with 90% germination rate or higher gets one seed per cell. Under 90% germination gets 2 seeds, or if the seed is 2 years or older, it gets 1 seed per year old.

Then, it's time to cover the seed. I use the same soil mix, but dry, so it runs through the sieve.

Then it's time to water. I like to lightly splash the trays. If you stay in one spot to long seeds can float up and move around.

More new things going on this spring at the farm. We just installed and inoculated a 300sq ft wood chip and straw bed with King Stopharia mushrooms from field & forest. This large portobello size mushrooms will hopefully start to flush this fall.

First transplants of the season went in today. We planted Tuscan kale and curly kale the we started on Dec 23. First we removed our old lettuce and landscape fabric. Then fertilize and till the top couple inches. We then rake the beds, run furrows, lay drip line and plant.