First Frost, Etc.

First Frost, Etc.

We’ve had some blazingly brilliant days and cool nights here on the farm, with our first light, patchy frost just a week ago.  Fall is a time I am both excited and relieved by every year, and I’m glad to see it’s here again.  Just in time to save us...
August’s Closing Shop

August’s Closing Shop

Time flies when you’re working hard…sometimes you forget to eat lunch, or pee, or even (astonishingly) write a blog entry.  But the farm is still here, and thriving on the whole.  We are deeply grateful to Kerstin and Katya, our apprentices this season,...
Fence-Building etc.

Fence-Building etc.

It’s July 15th, and the crops are in!  We just have some late successions of lettuce, pac choi and the like to get in over the next couple months.  Potato planting this year was a speedy group effort: dig a shallow trench with a wheel hoe, band in fish meal and...
In the news…

In the news…

Hey Everyone- Check out the Bangor Daily News feature that came out yesterday, June 12, 2012,  about North Branch Farm: http://bangordailynews.com/slideshow/young-farmers-working-together-on-the-midcoast/?ref=maineframe Things are going blazingly well here on the...
May

May

Good, happy Cinco de Junio! We have been like busy bees and busy beavers here at North Branch Farm, but my camera is not up-to-date on the happenings so there may be a shortage of visual evidence to back up my claims; judge for yourself if they are true… Plowing...
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