So what does a vegetable grower do to be resilient in an ever changing climate? Grow a variety of vegetables suitable to all weather possibilities and grow varieties of each of those vegetables! Mono culture is not resilient. We only need to look at huge fields of corn struggling for water this season to know…
What is in season?! At the markets we come to realize that as fewer and fewer families have access to farm life the rhythms of produce in season are barely known. People come to the market hoping for acorn squash or melons, yet the season is not here. So here is a list of what…
Beet harvest has begun! Often when we are at one of our Farmers’ Markets people will ask us to take the tops off the beets. We are happy to do that because our chickens look forward to market day and the bin of this and that discarded vegetables. But in that same moment another customer…
Sending along a link that is a great refresher in all things garden peas! In your bin this week you will be receiving either snow peas or sugar snap peas. Both have edible pods. Snow peas are long and slender. Sugar snap peas snap with a crispness with peas in the pod a little more…
It is no secret that it not only takes a lot of hard work to start or grow a business but a lot of capital as well. Farming is no exception to this!! Every farm business has that “game changer” next piece of equipment, building infrastructure, or greenhouse etc. that takes our businesses that next…
Dear friends, It was this time twenty years ago that as a young man trying to figure out the path I wanted to take in my life, I felt the calling to be a farmer. After getting involved in different social and environmental issues, it started to become clear to me that entering into the…
Listening to the news and observing social media, it is easy for people to be overwhelmed and immobilized by the impossibility of anything good coming for 2024. The talk of war, rising interest rates, rising cost of goods etc. lets us know that psychologically we are in the season of winter! Farmers understand the season…
Keep Planting! Every year presents its challenges to us and every year we keep returning to the planting of seeds. …
For centuries farmers have had faith in very small seeds. That faith is rooted in deep practices and knowledge of their seeds, their soil, the seasons, of success and even failure. Such a great photo! Taken in 2020 this photo says it all. Here at Willo’Wind we believe spring will come and with it another…
What can be said about 2020 that has not been said already?! It was quite the year? Definitely! It is easy to rhyme off the challenges, and obstacles facing farms and the farming community. Let’s start the year off on another tack – all the things that went surprisingly well this year here at Willo’Wind…