by Ruth Campbell | Jul 6, 2015 | Stories from the Farm
The bugs have arrived: the yellow pinstriped Colorado potato beetles and their lumpy orange babies, as well as the clumsy iridescent green and copper Japanese beetles. Together they are skeletonizing the leaves of the eggplants, potatoes, and beans. So much digging...
by Ruth Campbell | May 29, 2015 | Stories from the Farm
Strawberries are amazing things: technically they are not berries at all, but thickened stems, called receptacles. The little bits on the outsides are not actually seeds, but dry fruit (“achene”) that contain their own seeds. And unlike most other fruits, strawberries...
by Ruth Campbell | May 8, 2015 | Stories from the Farm
The lettuce seedlings jostle for space – leaves pushing up against each other like too many kids in the backseat of my car. I hate thinning the seedlings: plucking out life that looks so green and healthy. But I know that otherwise the plants will be stunted and...
