We have been harvesting greens, lots of scallions, peppers, cherry tomatoes and root crops. Micro Mama’s received a large delivery of various root crops and almost 200 bunch of scallion this week for their delicious fermented products. I can’t believe it, but we are still picking tomatoes in October even while wearing thermals! Greg made […]
The latest updates on Shaker Organic Gardens from Stacey Cooper, Co-op Organic Farm Manager Our turnips are coming along slowly and our daikon are looking great. Fall spinach was not very successful in germinating, but our late season radish, cabbage and leeks are looking great. Most of our brassicas have been pulled and added to […]
The latest updates on Shaker Organic Gardens from Stacey Cooper, Co-op Organic Farm Manager I believe fall is here! The wind is whipping today, the deer fence blowing away, apples plummeting to the ground and the farmer wind tossed. Our last round of transplanting was done this week with a bit of fall lettuce, spinach […]
The latest updates on Shaker Organic Gardens from Stacey Cooper, Co-op Organic Farm Manager We are full swing into root crop season. We have been busy harvesting our enormous carrots and sending them along to the kitchen, produce department, farm stand and Micro Mama’s. We have also been sending along our rutabaga, beets, scallions, radish, […]
The latest updates on Shaker Organic Gardens from Stacey Cooper, Co-op Organic Farm Manager We have been harvesting lots of carrots, cabbage, scallions, greens cucumbers, summer squash, rutabaga and leeks. We have cleaned out sections of the center field and cover cropped as well as covered some areas with plastic to try to knock […]
by Stacey Cooper, Co-op Organic Farm Manager We’ve been weeding away both aisles and crops. A good layer of mulch was put down on the leeks so hopefully that will be the last weeding of that bed for a while. We seeded sunflowers and transplanted peppers, tomatoes, lettuce, fennel, broccoli and cabbage. Voles seem to […]
by Stacey Cooper, Co-op Organic Farm Manager This week we transplanted into the field all of our leeks, 5 more flats of scallions, all chard and kale, fennel, pac choi and lettuce. We seeded beets, spinach, arugula, peas and radish. After irrigation lines were placed the kale and chard were mulched and covered with row […]
by Stacey Cooper, Co-op Organic Farm Manager (Be sure to check out the photo gallery at the bottom!) On the farm I have seeded our hot crops- eggplant, hot peppers, sweet peppers, cherry tomatoes and heirloom tomatoes. I’ve placed the germinated chard and kale flats into the hoop house and re-potted some for the plant […]
On the Air with Peter St. James – Concord Co-op Connection On the 2nd and 4th Friday of each month, at 8:30am, listen in on NH Wake Up Show hosted by Peter St. James, 107.7 FM when the topic is the Concord Co-op Connection! This week, Donna, Sara and Julianne Hartley chat with Peter on […]
by Stacey Cooper, Co-op Organic Farm Manager I’ve been tending our shallot and leek flats. Moving them into the sun each morning, a gentle watering and then back into the warmth at night. Most seem to be germinating quickly. I’ve seeded a few more flats this week to include lettuce, spinach, scallions and mustard greens […]
