Plant Life is Hard
July ended in dramatic fashion with a warm, day-long rain. It featured bouts of drizzle-gray and downpour. It featured farmers-in-rain-gear reveling in the magic, and the dry earth earning its drink. It brought a much needed saturation (we recorded ~.75" and are curious what others got?), a root-deep soak for our plants to enjoy. I imagine it's hard being a plant, especially one in New England, with its unpredictable weather patterns, the infinitude of insects and their insatiability, the evils of invasives, the underground grumps - moles and woodchucks looking for a meal, the deer, those graceful devilments also looking for a meal, and the many other forces working against their success like an unbalanced pH or infertility or fungus or bacteria or _________, etc.! Plant life is hard, but we've come to trust and rely on their resilience. To trust and rely on their roots and their relationship with the soil. And the billions of microbe microbes dreaming of the ultimate microbe-hood, unto which they cultivate a symbiosis.
The rain came during our Exeter Farmers Market on Thursday, but thanks to you die hard rain-or-shine folk in that hardy-village over there, we emptied some coolers of produce and buckets of flowers anyway! Thank you for your support and strong spirit - you keep us inspired! And of course, our neighbors in Dover! On Wednesday, before the rain, and the 90 degree Wednesday with secret 'will summer ever end?' thoughts, and despite the heat, you showed up! Thank you for your continued and loyal support! We see you! We appreciate you! Thank you!
And those flowers? Right? Our modest plot of mixed annuals, the at-the-bottom-of-the-to-do-list-but-thrive-anyway crop that never ceases to amaze in summertime. There's thousands in full colorful bloom open to the world keeping our team happy and the pollinators a-buzz. Otherwise, we've been busy keeping up with this 5-acre-animal we planted, trying to tame it, trying to keep the weeds at bay, pests at bay, keep the pipeline of variety extended for as long as possible, and [most importantly] keep up with the harvest. The summer faucet is on, and eight days a week, your farmers are filling up bushel baskets to ferry to you and yours. Be well out there, see you in the garden!
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Around the Farm
After a little bit of rain, we are seeing a solid flush of eggplant out there
Nightmare fuel
Miranda assembling some beautiful bouquets - I wish the lighting were better so you could appreciate their magical colors
Flowers on a rainy day. The last day of July 2025 - one to be remembered!
