Look if critics can review movies like their opinion matters I can review vegetables.  Now…moving on. “What the heck is a salad turnip?” If that was your response to the question I posed in the title – well alright fair enough!  But, if you keep reading, you’ll no longer have ignorance as an excuse for […]

Nothing really.  And everything. As I’ve previously mentioned I’m in an all out war with meadow voles.  If you have no idea what a meadow vole is, congratulations on your blissful ignorance.  Check out an image randomly found online here.  Awwwww, isn’t he cute?  FYI, if you’re ever standing near me in person and you […]

Click here for a Tomato Seed Saving Video Tutorial It’s always a scramble this time of year to tie up loose ends, clean up gardens, prep for the spring and generally make sure anything I want to access isn’t on the ground before the snow really flies.  Luckily there are a few things that can just […]

As the cold weather really begins to set in I’m reminded again of how cyclical life is when you’re making an attempt to reconnect to the land upon which all of us depend, whether we see or want to admit it or not.  And for us here at Parker Family Farm the current stage of […]

With the election over I figured it was time to catch you up on some of the things I’ve been working on here at the farm as I prepare our family and CSA customers for the long cold darkness of winter and prepare the gardens for next year’s planting season. I’m not very good at […]

Anyone who knows me well understands that I’m too jaded by my experiences in the belly of the beast to endorse or even put my faith in any candidate for governor (or any office above those at the local level really).  So if it seems to you, after reading my critiques of candidates Michaud and […]

Here I’ve been hard at work moving greenhouses to our new place, planting garlic, mulching, all the while snapping photos here and there with the intent to write some sort of fall prep/moving the farm blog this week when it suddenly hit me that next Tuesday is voting day.  You didn’t expect me to pass […]

You can check out my thoughts on the agricultural policies of Mr. LePage and Mr. Cutler in the posts I’m putting up simultaneously with this one about Mr. Michaud.  Here I hope to shed light on candidate Michaud’s stances on these issues, from the standpoint of a local food nut, particularly regarding how his food and […]

Joel Salatin writes in his book, Folks, This Ain’t Normal: A Farmer’s Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World:  “The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local fields, […]

One of the complaints I hear most frequently from people who have formerly been members in a CSA is that they received too many items they didn’t know how to prepare.  “We just didn’t know what to do with kohlrabi.”  “There are only so many radishes I can eat…what am I supposed to do with […]