Lalo joined me for a daddy-son day at the farm and greenhouse last week. Here he is helping me poke holes in the potting soil in the seedling trays to plant this summer’s tomatoes. The kids get really excited about coming out to the farm, but after about 20 minutes of semi-helping, they usually end [...]
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Spring Seedlings
Posted in Uncategorized on April 17, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Manchester-Farms Makes History
Posted in Uncategorized on December 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Left Bower Farm should really be called the Backyard Farm. Our large garden plot is located behind the historic Isaac Manchester farmhouse on Manchester-Farms in Avella. Our organic vegetable operation is a small fraction of the agricultural output of the larger farm, which is predominately an organic dairy, but is also home to organic, grass-fed [...]
Garlic Pickin’
Posted in Uncategorized on July 18, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Thanks so much to everyone who came out to the farm on Saturday to help pick (and trim and tie and hang) garlic. We had a blast and not just because it made the job go 2,000 times quicker. For me, it’s what participating in a CSA is all about, seeing where your food comes [...]
Our First Fan Mail
Posted in Uncategorized on June 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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Bittman’s ‘Food Manifesto’
Posted in Uncategorized on February 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Mark Bittman, NYTimes food columnist and cookbook author extraordinaire (start with How to Cook Everything and How to Cook Everything Vegetarian), wrote a column in today’s paper called A Food Manifesto for the Future. As Bittman admits, none of these ideas are new, but none of them have been made into reality either. We are a [...]
“Waste” Land
Posted in Uncategorized on January 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This time of year, when we’re selecting seed varieties and planning how much we’re going to plant during the upcoming season, we have to do a lot of fuzzy math to figure out how much each CSA member is going to get each week. My gut instinct is to give people as much as possible. [...]
2011 Seed Order… 80 varieties!
Posted in Uncategorized on January 11, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Last year I played it kind of safe, sticking to the best-known varieties and not much else. 2011 is a different story. I’ve decided to plant lots of different varieties (not necessarily lots more plants) to give CSA members and market folks more color and excitement every week. Check out the list below. It’s a little long, but [...]
What Farmers Do in the Winter
Posted in Uncategorized on January 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t know what other farmers (i.e. real farmers) do in the winter, but the Roos family chose to escape the frigid Washington, PA weather and return from whence we came: Mexico. Yes, in a previous incarnation, we lived in a small mountain town in central Mexico called Patzcuaro. We figured this might be our last chance [...]
Baby Zev!
Posted in Uncategorized on October 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
In other harvest news, we welcomed a new baby on Friday! Zev Hamilton Roos came into the world at 9:27pm and represents the culmination of a long “growing season” and a long-awaited addition to the Roos family. Here are some of the first pics.
