Savage Farming

Bad news. The main field of tomatoes finally began ripening and we are facing a huge press of sunburned and yellow-shouldered tomatoes. Everything was going fine, all looked well while the fruit was green. However, it turns out that the hailstorm pounded down and opened up our plants too much so we are seeing a huge incidence of basically ruined fruit. It isn't that it's inedible, just...

They've started the chip-seal operation on our highway and contrary to my earlier post, I couldn't be happier. That's how busy it has been at the stand. Tomatoes are selling like crazy. Seems a lot of people don't trust grocery store tomatoes after the salmonella scare. I've heard many customers say, "I haven't eaten a tomato in three months" or something equivalent. So I'm really glad we've got...

What fascinates me about great scientists like Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein? Asides from all the wonderful work they did in elucidating the nature of the universe, they also proved one important point: that it is possible for everyone on earth to be wrong but you....

I'm fascinated with how coincidences and synchronicity are synergized by the internet and blogs in particular. I can dwell here for a while and write up some casually thrown piece of reflection and if it offends someone, anyone, anywhere in the world, I hear from them the very next day. But if I have a great idea, one that could solve a lot of problems for a lot of people, or a particularly...

The last 24 hours have been lessons in the revelations provided by exhaustion. When I am tired from too much work all sorts of long simmering angers and resentments come to the fore. None of these are irrational or untrue, just expressions of events which went unanswered. I think that when I am tired, those events which have drawn time, energy, money etc. from me which has not been returned or...

A lovely morning to you, world. Gotta head out in a minute and pick stuff, just wanted to take a moment to support the world with a little positive reinforcement. So everybody: Be happy, you deserve it....

Our huge flush of tomatoes have started to come in. We will be shipping the first cases to Ray's Food Place in the morning. Dad and I had a heated disagreement about the pricing/quality issue but that's par for the course. I'm just a little confused as to why I'm subsidizing a large corporation like C&K; Markets. Seems to me they could afford to pay a little more to a small farmer like me...