by North Branch Farm | Aug 27, 2012 | Blog
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,...
by North Branch Farm | Jul 16, 2012 | Blog
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...
by North Branch Farm | Jun 13, 2012 | Blog
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...
by North Branch Farm | Jun 5, 2012 | Blog
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...
by North Branch Farm | Apr 30, 2012 | Blog
Some of you may know we spent last weekend tucking hundreds (440-ish, to be more specific) of fruit trees, mainly apple with some pears and cherries thrown in, into the brand new North Branch Orchard. The week preceding orchard-fest was a marathon of using, breaking,...
by North Branch Farm | Apr 21, 2012 | Blog
Friends, Neighbors and Family! Three short weeks ago, on April 1st, 2012, the Gawler parents arrived to set us and our barn roof straight. Equipped with safety gear of all kinds, they inspired us (once again!) to be more cautious on the job–and more...
