Notes from Norah

This week’s cooler mornings and start of the school year have me thinking about fall, and our first substantial apple harvest is right on time. We’ve been checking the trees regularly; giving a gentle tug

Spring, summer, fall, winter…we all learn about the seasons as young children and follow the annual merry-go-round of change with each orbit around the sun. At the farm each season has its own subset of

Norah is unexpectedly away this week, so this is a short and sweet hello from the crew, who started at 6 am and were happy to finish up earlier than usual this afternoon, just as

Greetings from Sweetland Remember our week 4 newsletter? I wrote it exactly 8 weeks ago, and in it I said that I was monitoring the overflowing irrigation ponds and “practicing my sun dance” to shift

Weekly Update – Learning from each other One of the most rewarding as well as most challenging things about running a diversified farm is just how many different things you need to know about. From

Farming is a juggling act of sorts, with so many daily tasks and priorities clamoring for attention. Some days the act goes smoothly, the “balls” moving past each other sure and steady as if by

This week at 1:11 AM on Saturday we welcomed the most exciting new addition of the season to the farm – Norah and Chris’s new daughter, Ida Aurora, arrived at 7lb 6oz! Norah and Ida

As of 10pm on Sunday we are DONE with our first round of haying for the season! Whew! With so many rainy days in June we had to take advantage of any 3-day stretch of

This week our last two workers finally arrived, after a lengthy delay in their visa processing. We are SO happy to have Keith and Juan Jose joining our team, just as we started to fall

I’ll keep my message short and sweet today as we scramble to triage in this stretch of hot weather. Animals and vegetables need extra water. Hay is drying rapidly. The harvest is getting bigger every

This week our first flock of broiler chickens will be harvested and available in the farm stand cooler. The second batch, now 4 weeks old and fully feathered, will move from the brooder out to

Though these farmers may be a little sick of all the rain over the past several weeks, if you look around the farm this time of year it’s clear that water really is the source