Seedling progress
It’s been a month since we last wrote about our seed starting progress. We knew that starting out in March at the farm would provide some challenges with the seed starting since their isn’t a greenhouse on the property yet. After the onions came the brassicas, for example, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, and brussel sprouts. Though […]
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Starting the garden
The weather has finally allowed us to break ground in the new garden space. Last summer, Tim planted a cover crop of daikon radish to help condition the soil. We’ve been told that this same ground last year was knee high in woody shrubs, so we know we’re in for some hard work. We choose […]
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Earth Day
We celebrated Earth Day by doing one of the best things for her, gardening! It’s all about the garden lately — which is perfect since we’ve been itching to get started on it ever since we arrived here. We decided to go with mulching with straw this season to see how it does compared with […]
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Planting potatoes
How wonderful it is to get our hands back in the soil again, connecting with the Earth’s amazing soil. The soil ecology unbelievably diverse. Today we planted potatoes with joy. There are a lot of different to plant potatoes, but for us this year we have decided to try seeding directly into deep holes topped with straw mulch. […]
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Cover crops
Today we manually spread 30 lbs of cover crop seed across the 5 acre forest patch cut on the property. It was a really rewarding endeavour because we are being apart of gifting the next fellows with more fertile land to cultivate. This is a really important part of transitioning Willow Brook Farm into a […]
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Sawing lumber
Today, Tim and Austin tried out the sawmill for the first time. We started where all building projects ought to start: in the woods. First we selected some trees that fit our intended purpose, felled them, hauled them, and turned them into lumber right here in the yard. Since this was our first time trying out […]
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Dairy business
Today a big synchronicity occurred for us: a women called us from across the state who happened to hear from a friend that we were looking for dairy goats to expand our dairy business this year. She had a dairy business herself that she had started a while back that is now very prosperous. With an […]
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Forestry introduction
Positive impact forestry is the topic for today’s post. We spent a lot of time in the woods today with Tim and a friend. We were moved with the inspiring wisdom of how to properly tend and care for a healthy forest, and how human impact can actually be a positive thing. Forestry at […]
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Tomatoes & wood chips
Yesterday we finally got to plant our vigorous tomato plants. One trick that we have learned in the past is to plant them as deep in the ground as you can, it triggers the plant to produce more roots which helps the plant thrive. After all the tomatoes were in the soil we were thrilled. […]
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Farmers’ market
Welcome to Seacoast Community Marketplace! The grand opening of our farmers market began today that will continue until the end of October. There are 14 vendors here today selling a wide variety from fresh green produce, to jam & jellies, to dried beans and syrup, soaps & jewelry! The excitement and anticipation for this opening […]
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