As a part time employee here at Red Dog farm, my experience has been very impressionistic: long mornings in the raspberries, lunch naps under the plum tree, visions of Maggie chasing after Suzy in the tractor; Julia belting Rhianna in the farm truck, racing Lane through the potatoes; Amy chuckling at her own puns and making sure to laugh hard at Naomi’s; afternoon...
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I’m relatively new to farming, but one thing I can say I’ve been involved with my whole life is art. I definitely wouldn’t consider myself an expert at any certain medium but at any given time there are at least three different crafty endeavors going on in every corner of my home. This year I’ve been a bit disappointed in myself for not finding the time to finish...
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Live from the field, I bring you an inside exclusive interview with the crew, all about everyone’s summer favorite… the RASPBERRY. Mermaid Man: My favorite raspberry memory is throwing them, to try to hit people on the head with overripe berries. Baba Yaga: The under-ripe ones would be a little too hard, right? Butternut: Ooh yeah. The splat is what you’re looking...
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Around the middle of June, we began harvesting sugar snap peas. Twice a week, as many of us as possible head out to the pea patch and together pick our way along the seemingly endless bright green walls. With the plants thickly massed five and six feet high on trellises, walking down the pea beds feels like walking down a hallway or through a maze. We tend to find...
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June has been a particularly eventful month at the farm for us – not just because it brings us long-awaited goods like aromatic basil and fresh cabbage – but because it has been full of BIRTHDAYS! Karyn and Ian both celebrated at the beginning of the month (on the same day!), and Lane is the final Gemini, right before the solstice. Usnea and I round out the few...
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Today’s article is a poem by Blake, our tractor specialist. Hungry for harvest Sick of spring greens Waiting for something new to fulfill my summer dreams What’s growing to be the next best thing? Perhaps corn, possibly cabbage potatoes soon and peppers too And if the crop does not grow I will have nowhere to go… nowhere to work, nowhere to play But worst of...
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