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Wild Raspberries
At Campobello we have a little patch of woods in the back. They offer a few small wild strawberries, an abundant leek crop and perhaps most appreciated, a great raspberry and blackberry harvest. The...
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Fall Veggies
Well with the garlic now dried and for sale on the farm stand, the garlic beds have been taken over by weeds. Rather than let the beds languish amid chickweed, pigweed and reseeded buckwheat, we...
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Early harvest!
Bouquets of fresh flowers, baskets of tomatoes and zucchini flowering in amongst the lavender. It’s a busy time of year at Campobello with storing all the bounty and planting even more. All the...
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Our First Wedding
Wowie! Have you ever hosted a wedding for 250 people? Well we can now say we have. It was a lot of getting ready; planting, digging, driving stakes, mowing but it turned out SO well! We have...
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A Summer of Farm Stand
Last year our farm stand was rather hit-and-miss. If we had some extra, it went up for sale on the farm stand. This year we made a concerted effort to keep it well stocked with lots of local goodies....
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The Fast and The Furious
Did I just make a pop culture street racing movie reference in regards to farming? Yes, yes I did. Why? Because the sense of urgency surrounding the season’s first frost is somewhat similar to...
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Pearsauce
You’ve heard of applesauce right? Well with two heavily fruiting pear trees, there’s no way we could eat all those pears. We sold some on the farm stand and some at the farm market but we had so...
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Stretching Summer
The leaves are turning, a bit of frost nipping and we want to keep growing! Northern Michigan summers are all too short and although the first two weeks of Autumn have been glorious – that won’t last....
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Feeding the Compost Pile
The compost pile is a key to our growing success. We put every…single….scrap of kitchen waste (except meat of course) into our compost pile; every weed, every dead plant, rotted pumpkin, spent cut...
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Tubey tubers….
It’s been a frantic-ish week digging and storing. We’re pretty confident in our ability to store seeds and preserve veggies and fruit (did I mention that pear tree #2 is LOADED?), but my knowledge of...
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