Potatoes, Rabbits in the Lettuce, No-Till Bed Flipping

Began harvesting our first potato crop of the year, Dark Red Norlands, a cultivar from Nebraska known for its creamy texture.  The yield is good, especially given that we grew the potatoes on a part of the property that hadn’t been farmed for decades.

The rabbits are back and on a mission to eat as much of our lettuce as possible.  It’s impossible to walk through the farm in the evening without spooking two or three of them out from under the raspberry bushes or the beds of garlic. — Robin Hackett, Farm Manager

We continue to experiment with flipping beds from one crop to the next without tilling.  This week, we mowed down an old bed of Swiss chard and planted lettuce alongside the still-intact stalks in the ground.  Placing the lettuce around the old Swiss chard was a bit difficult, but will hopefully be worth the effort. —Alex O’Brien, Farm Crew