We kept somewhat busy during a wet week. Rain kept us away from harvest Sunday through Saturday. Our farm has been really wet. Wet Week https://storify.com/thefarmerslife/east-80-wet High water alert. Just 2″ of rain made everything wet. Our soils have been close to saturated since heavy rains came ahead of harvest back in August. As a […]
Crops are growing bigger by the day on the farm. Everything has been planted for a few weeks now, and all the corn and popcorn has been fertilized. So what are we up to now? Take a look! Moving Corn to Market We delivered several loads of the 2013 corn crop. Right now we have […]
A bit of a slow start early this farm week due to wet soils, but by Wednesday we were back to planting again. Take a look! Family Farming Great shot my wife got of our son and me after he spent a whole afternoon (until 9pm) planting popcorn with me. Planting that popcorn! Seed Swap! […]
Are you hosting or attending an Oscar party tonight? If so maybe you’ll be partaking in the popular movie treat known as popcorn, and there’s some small chance our family farm may have raised that popcorn! Each year we dedicate somewhere between 10-15% of our acreage to popcorn production. Growing popcorn isn’t much different from […]
It’s been another busy week all about harvest on the farm. After a few hours of waxy corn harvest we started into popcorn and have been working on it all week long. River View So this is probably one of the best pictures I’ve taken in a while. This was taken while standing on the […]
Farm Week in Pictures has us on the farm, but by week’s in end I was in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Check it out! Stick in the MudHappy Monday! It’s really in there. You can’t see the water in the grass to the right. That is an open ditch between two parts of a field. Uh.And Tuesday. […]