Broadfork 
Amend with compost and organic fertilizer
Incorporate amendments and create a smooth seedbed with a Tilther.
Sow salad turnip and radish seeds with a Jang seeder.
Flipping a bed
We have been certified
No, not certified insane. Certified by the Real Organic Project.
Although High & Dry Farm has been certified organic for several years now, we, like many farmers, have been disturbed that the USDA allows organic certification of farming practices such as hydroponic farming, and raising livestock on barren lots deceptively designated as “pasture”. Certification by the Real Organic Project means that farming practices conform to what any reasonable person would identify as organic, i.e, crops grown in soil, without use of artificial chemical fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides, and livestock raised under humane conditions including access to real pasture. So there is organic, and there is real organic. We are both.
Tamater time
80 tomato varieties, 800 plants, are thriving and will soon need to be potted up in gallon containers for sales.
A cake for Mark’s birthday
Certified Organic
OK! High & Dry Farm has just received its Organic Certification
These are the tomato varieties that we will grow this year.
First Crop of Spring
Here are two varieties of arugula – Esmee on the left and Astro on the right.
Sowing under glass
The last few days I have been busy sowing my ~120 different tomato varieties, as well as eggplant and tomatillo. The very first tomato variety to germinate was Amy’s Apricot.
Raisin d’etre
Our great weather this summer yielded a beautiful crop of about 20 lbs of Thompson Seedless grapes, from which I produced 3 lbs of raisins.
Nectar War
Here is a photo of a Pale Swallowtail.
OK, not really. Pale Swallowtails are quite rare here, so when I saw one feeding on these flowers I raced for my camera. Just as I focused this Anna’a Hummingbird showed up and aggressively drove the swallowtail away.