Blog Post via Edgewater Farm
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Pooh Sprague, owner of Edgewater Farm, wrote a blog post about this growing season's struggles and successes. Read more at the link below!
"We are sitting in the middle of a summer so very different from last year where everything languished in a never ending seasonal drought that effected crop productivity and wore everybody down. It was tough to deal with dust and heat and try to farm in a climate that then was more suited to dryland grain farming and felt like eastern Colorado. Fast forward to this year and the lushness and soggy conditions have fostered epic weed growth, leached nutrition from the cultivated soils and brought every vegetable disease in the book up on these wet southern storms. I may be singing a different tune by the weeks (note: I am now singing a bit of a different tune. On Friday July 21 we got an additional 3” of rain in our town. Local Blow Me Down Brook blew out of its channel wiping our two acres of corn and eroding gullys in the field in an effort to create a new, more efficient channel. Elsewhwere at Ray and Jenny we lost 30 to 40% of a three acre planting of fall crops that were just transplanted earlier in the week to pounding rain and rushing water. The resulting addition of water front property was unwarranted and unwanted. On the home farm we additionally had invest in two truckloads of aggregate to put our farm roads and driveways in order.)" REad more
