by Steph Jones | Jan 29, 2025 | Farming Resources
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...
by Steph Jones | Jan 21, 2025 | Farming Resources
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 tank...
by Steph Jones | Jan 14, 2025 | Farming Resources
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 the...
by Gabrielle | Jan 3, 2025 | Farming Resources
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...
by Steph Jones | Dec 13, 2024 | CSA, Farming Resources, Winter Share
Although our days are a lot slower than the summer, we still have plenty to do with daily and weekly crop maintenance both in the fields and the high tunnels. We have 8 rows of low tunnels outside that use heavy duty hoops for snow and 6 mm plastic where we grow...
by Steph Jones | Dec 13, 2024 | CSA, Farming Resources, Winter Share
When people hear we continue to farm and work outside in the winter, the first question people ask is: “how do you do it?! Isn’t it freezing?”. And our answer always is, yes it can be cold on particularly rainy, wet, or during very deep cold snaps, but it’s all in how...
