FARMING
RESOURCESBehind the Scenes of our Annual Plant Sale!
The plant sale is one of our most popular events of the year, and it takes a lot of organization for it to come together! It all starts with the planning process as we are doing our seed ordering in the winter. I will look at the inventory numbers from the previous...
Working Clay Soil in the Spring
Our soil is a clay loam, which can provide some difficulties in the springtime when breaking ground for the first time in the season. Over the years we have figured out the best way to prepare our soil in the springtime, which differs from our strategies in the...
Greenhouse Basics
It’s that time of year when our greenhouse is in full swing getting plants started for our season. We began seeding back in February our earliest spring crops and are now moving on to some of the summer classics like tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant. This blog post...
ABAA CADIABRA: A Mental Practice for Our Farm Crew
You might be wondering what the heck does ABAA CADIABRA mean, besides sounding like a magic spell?! Well, it is an acronym that stands for: “Always Be Assessing Always …. Complete All Data Input Accurately Before Retiring Activity” It’s a mentality to keep our farm...
Creating and Sharing Documents With Our Team for Shared Knowledge
Even though some of our crew members might be returning from year to year, we still have lots of new people joining our team each season. In the winter, we discuss all the ways we can share some of the important information necessary for the success of the crops...
Getting Ready to SEED!
This week on the farm we’re preparing to seed some of the first crops of the year! The first thing we’ll plant is early carrots in our hoophouse for market and first CSA pickups. In order to flip the bed, we made sure to completely harvest all the rest of the...
Seed Inventory, Putting Together the Seed Order, and Checking Seeds In
Before we begin placing our seed order for the year, we inventory our supply from this past season. We have our seeds separated by crop family in nice tupperware containers. We take each box over to a table, open it up and take out its contents. We take our notepad...
Winter Tractor Care
We do a few things for our tractors to upkeep them through the wintertime. Right when the temperatures are just starting to get cold and our use of the tractors is done for the year, we fill all the tanks up to full capacity and add fuel stabilizer. An empty fuel...
Crop Planning and Variety Selection
In the thick of winter, perusing seed catalogs and planning for next season is an exciting task. I’ll share a little about our process and how we tackle crop planning and variety selection. The most important thing about crop planning is being able to reflect on...
Downy Mildew Control in Winter
A significant challenge in the winter time is controlling downy mildew on multiple winter staple crops like lettuce and spinach. Here’s what we do at Pennypack: Spinach: An important part about controlling downy mildew in spinach is variety selection. From...
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