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Reflections on Spring Planting Season
This past week, a good friend and reader, who grew up in the same area of northern Illinois, asked me what’s going on with food availability and prices. Turns out that it’s complicated – and a long story. It’s planting…
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Can This Vegetable Garden Be Saved?
Here in eastern Massachusetts as the dry weather continues with no substantial rainfall on the horizon, everybody is worried about their lawns. At least the intense heat has let up. But we have bigger problems. If you’re a gardener, the…
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It’s Spring, and Planting Season for Our Wheat
WARNING: This blog contains gluten. We’re on the cusp of spring growing season. The snow has melted, and the frozen ground below is thawing. It’s the time of year when the farmers I knew as a youth were itching to…
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The Future of Farming
When you sit down to your Thanksgiving dinner, I hope you will consider saying a big “thank you” to the farmers and ranchers responsible for your meal. As Americans, we have a huge gap in understanding what’s happening out there…
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Future Food Sources: Reaping What We Sow
Here north of Boston, July was not a good month for vegetable gardens. Record rainfall. Cold temperatures. And a bumper crop of weeds. As for the vegetables, the tomatoes were not ripening as they should, and others were slow to…
