Dropstone Farms

The peas are coming in, and the mustard greens are flowering and covered with honeybees, and the beans are coming up, and the 100+ tomatoes have been potted up and are just waiting for ground to go into, and yet I haven’t been taking pictures. I took pictures of peas last year! This year’s pictures would be basically identical. Maybe I should take them anyway. I guess if we stopped talking about things that reoccur seasonally, we would run out of things to talk about very quickly. I love the cyclical nature of the farm, but it sure does make me a boring conversation partner.

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Dear person who found us by searching for “double digging” overrated,

It isn’t. It is only unfeasible if your plot is too big to double-dig in one day or one weekend. In that case, evaluate whether you can have some friends and their shovels over to help, or just double-dig the planting areas and skip the paths. Double-digging is good.

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Dear people who found us by searching for broccoli plant; broccoli plants; broccoli farm; broccoli plant sprouts; etc.,

What is it that you are looking for? We get a lot of you! Did I take a particularly nice broccoli picture or something?

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Dear people who found us by searching for zucchini blossom end rot photos or similar,

Zucchini blossom end rot is a bummer. Try adding dolomite lime to your soil. But as you can see, you probably can still get enough zucchini to meet your needs.

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Dear people who found us by searching for variations on Monsanto owns Territorial Seed,

I assume you found what you are looking for, but rest assured it isn’t true.

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Dear people who found us by searching for halibut with broccoli and brown rice,

Yum!

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Dear people who found us by searching for pullet bald butts, bald polish chicken (poor critter!), bald chicken butts, etc.,

We never did figure out why all their butt fluff was gone, but we got rid of our drake (male duck), and they seem to be regrowing — at least, they aren’t getting worse. Do you have any dudes around who might be unkind to your ladies?

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Dear people who found us by searching for no farms no food,

Right on. You can get a bumper sticker like ours from the American Farmland Trust.

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Extra bonus question:

Dear people who read the duckling post in Dutch via Google Translator,

Who are you?? How did you find us?? Do I know you?

Love, Lauren & Garth

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I just installed a bunch of new things for the blog.

You can now subscribe to get email updates whenever we post.

If you comment you can also subscribe to get emailed whenever there are subsequent comments to that post — there’s a checkbox under the comment form. I wanted this one because we often come back and reply to comments a few days later.

On a similar note, in the sidebar on the right, you can now see the 10 most recent comments! This is mostly for me so I don’t have to click around and try to find which one I wanted to reply to.

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