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Gentle reminder on this snow day: 4 months until strawberry season 🙌🍓
Gentle reminder on this snow day: 4 months until strawberry season 🙌🍓
From yesterday’s t-shirt weather: Troy Hall- of Hall’s Apiaries- checking in on the bees residing at our strawberry fields in Cornish.
From yesterday’s t-shirt weather: Troy Hall- of Hall’s Apiaries- checking in on the bees residing at our strawberry fields in Cornish.
deep winter off-season tractor work
deep winter off-season tractor work
N O W - H I R I N G !!!
Seeking help in our kitchen, greenhouses, Farmstand, & field crew - follow the link in bio to check out job descriptions, download an application, and dream up a season of working alongside the Connecticut River, sweating a ton, and eating so many strawberries.
N O W - H I R I N G !!! Seeking help in our kitchen, greenhouses, Farmstand, & field crew - follow the link in bio to check out job descriptions, download an application, and dream up a season of working alongside the Connecticut River, sweating a ton, and eating so many strawberries.
Necessary seed order pond break
Necessary seed order pond break
Wild Saturday nights at Edgewater Farm- all elves on deck. 
Also, attention Upper Valley: our storage crops are bagged and boxed and heading to the @coopfoodstores first thing tomorrow for all your holiday food needs.
Wild Saturday nights at Edgewater Farm- all elves on deck. Also, attention Upper Valley: our storage crops are bagged and boxed and heading to the @coopfoodstores first thing tomorrow for all your holiday food needs.
#winterfarming
#winterfarming
Currently eating hearty soups, so many roots, and effortless Mac n’ Cheese on the regular, though day dreaming about the Summer CSA season and all the fresh variety. Join me in this day dream- early bird specials up on website- click bio link for all the info✨
Currently eating hearty soups, so many roots, and effortless Mac n’ Cheese on the regular, though day dreaming about the Summer CSA season and all the fresh variety. Join me in this day dream- early bird specials up on website- click bio link for all the info✨
1) One of the many good people on this farm that never gets enough credit is Pooh Sprague. Let it be known to insta and beyond, that he has been blogging for nearly 7 years- updated seasonally- and has been farming on River Road for nearly 45 years. Bottomline, if you are a farm geek like us or maybe just thinking about farm life and what it entails, it’s worth a read. Also, in this post he casually slips in a “BTW” (this feels monumental to me). 2) none of these photos are from today- no we are not picking radishes, and no we have not begun grafting our 2019 tomatoes
3) however the last photo was taken yesterday from his tractor where he and ray were spreading mulch on snow/strawberries
1) One of the many good people on this farm that never gets enough credit is Pooh Sprague. Let it be known to insta and beyond, that he has been blogging for nearly 7 years- updated seasonally- and has been farming on River Road for nearly 45 years. Bottomline, if you are a farm geek like us or maybe just thinking about farm life and what it entails, it’s worth a read. Also, in this post he casually slips in a “BTW” (this feels monumental to me). 2) none of these photos are from today- no we are not picking radishes, and no we have not begun grafting our 2019 tomatoes 3) however the last photo was taken yesterday from his tractor where he and ray were spreading mulch on snow/strawberries
The chickens will be so bummed when this wagon heads off to the strawberry fields.
The chickens will be so bummed when this wagon heads off to the strawberry fields.
Our annual load of straw arrived today, and with our crew down to three, Anne and Pooh jumped in to help stack/ relive their younger years one straw bale at a time.
Our annual load of straw arrived today, and with our crew down to three, Anne and Pooh jumped in to help stack/ relive their younger years one straw bale at a time.
Potentially the most boring photo on your feed today- but the content here is good as gold. The farm’s website is now updated to fulfill all of your holiday shopping needs for that special locavore in your life. Think CSA shares, and gift certificates. For more info see link in bio!
Potentially the most boring photo on your feed today- but the content here is good as gold. The farm’s website is now updated to fulfill all of your holiday shopping needs for that special locavore in your life. Think CSA shares, and gift certificates. For more info see link in bio!
FALL CSA WEEK 7 p i c k l i s t
Hot sauce - carrots - onions - celeriac - roasted vegetables - pizza dough - arugula - kale - Napa cabbage - watermelon radish - turnips - beets - blue Hubbard squash - storage potatoes
FALL CSA WEEK 7 p i c k l i s t Hot sauce - carrots - onions - celeriac - roasted vegetables - pizza dough - arugula - kale - Napa cabbage - watermelon radish - turnips - beets - blue Hubbard squash - storage potatoes
PSA for CSA:
Gentle reminder about the special TUESDAY CSA pick up. 
Tomorrow night, 4:30-6 
And let it be known, that this kale was picked under a couple rays of sun light- a very rare event these days, soak it up y’all✨
PSA for CSA: Gentle reminder about the special TUESDAY CSA pick up. Tomorrow night, 4:30-6 And let it be known, that this kale was picked under a couple rays of sun light- a very rare event these days, soak it up y’all✨
Case of the Mondays in the foreground, very pumped about picking greens for tomorrow’s CSAers in the background.
Case of the Mondays in the foreground, very pumped about picking greens for tomorrow’s CSAers in the background.
FALL CSA week 6 p i c k l i s t:
eggs - carrots - leeks - brusselsprouts - cabbage - beet greens - beets - potatoes - watermelon radishes - butternut squash - raspberry applesauce - pumpkin bread pudding
FALL CSA week 6 p i c k l i s t: eggs - carrots - leeks - brusselsprouts - cabbage - beet greens - beets - potatoes - watermelon radishes - butternut squash - raspberry applesauce - pumpkin bread pudding
Snow-sleet-rain day, therefor we indoor sport: Chipping garlic with wood stove and record player working overtime.
Snow-sleet-rain day, therefor we indoor sport: Chipping garlic with wood stove and record player working overtime.
FALL CSA WEEK 5
p i c k - l i s t :
Oatmeal bread - carrot ginger soup - eggs - sweet potatoes - fennel - parsley - radishes - kale - parsnips - shallot - onion - garlic - celeriac - carrots
FALL CSA WEEK 5 p i c k - l i s t : Oatmeal bread - carrot ginger soup - eggs - sweet potatoes - fennel - parsley - radishes - kale - parsnips - shallot - onion - garlic - celeriac - carrots
Attention CSAers and other passerby’s: extra bread for sale tonite (5-6pm) at CSA pick up $3/ loaf and made minutes ago.
Attention CSAers and other passerby’s: extra bread for sale tonite (5-6pm) at CSA pick up $3/ loaf and made minutes ago.
Standing water is the foreground- blue skies in the background. More of the latter please... though perhaps there is something to be said for beach front property?
Standing water is the foreground- blue skies in the background. More of the latter please... though perhaps there is something to be said for beach front property?
Gentle reminder on this snow day: 4 months until strawberry season 🙌🍓 From yesterday’s t-shirt weather: Troy Hall- of Hall’s Apiaries- checking in on the bees residing at our strawberry fields in Cornish. deep winter off-season tractor work N O W - H I R I N G !!!
Seeking help in our kitchen, greenhouses, Farmstand, & field crew - follow the link in bio to check out job descriptions, download an application, and dream up a season of working alongside the Connecticut River, sweating a ton, and eating so many strawberries. Necessary seed order pond break Wild Saturday nights at Edgewater Farm- all elves on deck. 
Also, attention Upper Valley: our storage crops are bagged and boxed and heading to the @coopfoodstores first thing tomorrow for all your holiday food needs. #winterfarming Currently eating hearty soups, so many roots, and effortless Mac n’ Cheese on the regular, though day dreaming about the Summer CSA season and all the fresh variety. Join me in this day dream- early bird specials up on website- click bio link for all the info✨ 1) One of the many good people on this farm that never gets enough credit is Pooh Sprague. Let it be known to insta and beyond, that he has been blogging for nearly 7 years- updated seasonally- and has been farming on River Road for nearly 45 years. Bottomline, if you are a farm geek like us or maybe just thinking about farm life and what it entails, it’s worth a read. Also, in this post he casually slips in a “BTW” (this feels monumental to me). 2) none of these photos are from today- no we are not picking radishes, and no we have not begun grafting our 2019 tomatoes
3) however the last photo was taken yesterday from his tractor where he and ray were spreading mulch on snow/strawberries The chickens will be so bummed when this wagon heads off to the strawberry fields. Our annual load of straw arrived today, and with our crew down to three, Anne and Pooh jumped in to help stack/ relive their younger years one straw bale at a time. Potentially the most boring photo on your feed today- but the content here is good as gold. The farm’s website is now updated to fulfill all of your holiday shopping needs for that special locavore in your life. Think CSA shares, and gift certificates. For more info see link in bio! FALL CSA WEEK 7 p i c k l i s t
Hot sauce - carrots - onions - celeriac - roasted vegetables - pizza dough - arugula - kale - Napa cabbage - watermelon radish - turnips - beets - blue Hubbard squash - storage potatoes PSA for CSA:
Gentle reminder about the special TUESDAY CSA pick up. 
Tomorrow night, 4:30-6 
And let it be known, that this kale was picked under a couple rays of sun light- a very rare event these days, soak it up y’all✨ Case of the Mondays in the foreground, very pumped about picking greens for tomorrow’s CSAers in the background. FALL CSA week 6 p i c k l i s t:
eggs - carrots - leeks - brusselsprouts - cabbage - beet greens - beets - potatoes - watermelon radishes - butternut squash - raspberry applesauce - pumpkin bread pudding Snow-sleet-rain day, therefor we indoor sport: Chipping garlic with wood stove and record player working overtime. FALL CSA WEEK 5
p i c k - l i s t :
Oatmeal bread - carrot ginger soup - eggs - sweet potatoes - fennel - parsley - radishes - kale - parsnips - shallot - onion - garlic - celeriac - carrots Attention CSAers and other passerby’s: extra bread for sale tonite (5-6pm) at CSA pick up $3/ loaf and made minutes ago. Standing water is the foreground- blue skies in the background. More of the latter please... though perhaps there is something to be said for beach front property?

And the lucky winner is…

August 13, 2016

This has been a dry summer here in the Upper Valley. The weather has been so beautiful that no one has really noticed that it snuck up on us.   We have been extremely dry here in Plainfield and Cornish, andmany ofyou probably have seen the solid set irrigation system or the traveling water cannons going from time to time when you drive by. We were very fortunate to get two unannounced storms: a timely one in June and another in Mid July. Those two storms saved our butt at a time we were about to start losing crops. The good thing abouta drought is it usually is great weather for harvesting things, and the lack of moisture often means a reduction of disease and weed pressure. So we are selling a lot of product this year, and it is not being overtaken by weeds or disease.  By our standards, a very good year for us thus far, although we desperately need rain if we are to have a decent fall season. 

Some of my colleagues are not faring as well.  In fact, they are hurting pretty badly, both emotionally and financially. Down onfarms in southern New Hampshire and on the Rhode Island and Massachusettsseacoastthey are really getting it handed to them.  They are sufferingfinancially because the labor andenergy costsassociated with irrigation mount up fast. It adds additional labor. It can actually diminished yield or lose crops in their entirety.  Both contribute to the financial loss. The emotional loss is in watching the crops wither that you cant get water to, and staring in dismay at your cell phone weather app while storms and fronts blow by without dropping any of the moisture that waspromised. Makes it tough to get up everyday andkeep going with any level of optimism.  We have been there, it wears you down and gets you into a negative corner. Everything is harder. 

So what is the difference between Edgewater Farm which is having a good year on paper and those farms that will be refinancing operating loans, perhaps mortgages?  Are we better farmers?  Smarter? Newer tractors?  Have better looking workers?

The answer pretty much is simply this: we were shot in the ass with luck and they were not. 

We got lucky. We got two good soakers when they did not. And the timeliness of those rains couldn’t have been better if I had ordered takeout for them.  Michael Smith who ran Gypsy Meadow Farm for a time next door to us correctly observed that“We farmers are bright enough. We got tools and skill enough so we can farm in a swamp, or we can farm in a desert.  But you’ve got to tell us which one its going to be…”  And so everyyear we- and otherfarmers who do this same thing for a living-  plan for the “normal”  year and hope that it works out that way. This year has not been normal and there are big losers and big winners. It is so random and it seems so unfair. This farming thing is a huge crap shoot anyway and there are a few things you can do to ameliorate problems. But as the song goes….”When you’rehot, you’rehot. When you’ re not, you’re not.”   That pretty much sums upthe winners and losers this year. 

We have been very lucky.  This time.   But I have been on the receivingend of nasty weather events, and it tempers my optimism day to day. The boom can still fall.  We have a lot of dollars in fall crops sitting out there and at this point they will only come up a winner if wescore another soaker in the next ten days.   A save-your-ass rain. 

Maybe we swill or wont get it. Too bad. Our money is down already….I made the bet back in February. Me and every other farmer whobet on havinga “normal” summer.

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email: info@edgewaterfarm.com

phone: (603) 298-5764

246 NH Route 12A 

Plainfield, NH 03781