Week 44, 2020｜Kristin Kimball ｜October 30, 2020
There are two very important harvests every year, both dictated by the weather. There’s the sun-soaked, cool breeze kind that comes in the colorful days of September or early October, before the […]
Week 43, 2020｜Kristin Kimball ｜October 23, 2020
I roamed out of New York State this week for the first time since February, to pick up a new livestock guardian dog in Maine. It was an everyday farm errand made […]
Week 41, 2020｜Kristin Kimball ｜October 2, 2020
I love this time of year. The energy of harvest is different from that of planting or weeding. It’s a celebration of all the work that came before, fulfillment of the seed’s […]
Week 39, 2020｜Kristin Kimball ｜September 25, 2020
What a snappy end to the growing season, just as summer turned to fall. We had a first light frost two weeks ago, but most plants survived. Then, this past week we […]
Week 37, 2020｜Kristin Kimball ｜September 11, 2020
The cold mornings have shoved me hard into food preservation mode. This week, I had a leftover flat of paste tomatoes to turn into sauce. My tomato method changes according to my […]
Week 35, 2020｜Kristin Kimball ｜August 30, 2020
Nobody can blow up a kitchen like our family can when we are all cooking at once. Friday morning, before ten, we had every dish and pot in the house in use, and […]
Week 34, 2020｜Kristin Kimball ｜August 21, 2020
The rains were so localized this week, some parts of our farm caught a downpour and some got nothing. But we’ll take it, anywhere. Our weather station registered nearly nine […]
Week 33, 2020｜Kristin Kimball ｜August 14, 2020
Rain, at last. 2.9 inches, gracias a Isaias. It reminded me of that magic trick where you pour a glass of milk into a cone made of newspaper and it all disappears without a […]
Week 31, 2020｜Kristin Kimball ｜July 31, 2020
Welcome, August, and the dog days that come with you, and the simultaneous repulsion and attraction we feel for the coming frost, for fall, which is suddenly within our meager grasp of […]
Week 30, 2020｜Kristin Kimball ｜July 24, 2020
Three meager tenths of an inch of rain over the last seven days. Vegetables would prefer an inch per week, but still, on a normal year, three tenths would be […]
