Successions

Vegetable farming is a successional dance. When we get the timing and quantity right, then we will have the right amount at the right time. It’s a challenge! It sometimes feels like it would be easier to just over plant so that we will have what we need out there, but if we do that our input costs will increase and we won’t make good use of what we put out. In this weeks photo you can see lettuce, fall cabbage, fall cauliflower, fall broccoli, and zucchini. In the background is baby lettuce for later weeks, and behind that we seeded a pea-oat cover crop which will not survive the winter. It should give us a nice clean slate for us to plant into next spring!  We are beginning farmers (this is our fifth season, or fifth experience, farming full-time) but we do feel like we learn something more every year.