The Poetry of Farming: A Poem for February 9, 2017
“The poetry of Earth is never dead,” wrote John Keats. And now, centuries later, young farmer Cristina Cosentino agrees.
Diary of an Organic Farm Apprentice: Plow Deep and Straight and Don’t Cut Corners
The title comes from Paul Harvey’s “So God Made a Farmer” speech. It’s this line: “It had to be somebody who’d plow deep and straight and not cut corners. Somebody to seed, weed, feed, breed, and rake and disc and plow and plant…”
Diary of an Organic Farm Apprentice: The Scent of Spring
No longer an apprentice, Cristina starts a new job.
Diary of an Organic Farm Apprentice: Tractor & Machinery Maintenance
You’d never think that it took a welder to grow the carrot you’re eating. But each vegetable is connected to the thousands of pounds of steel it took to open, turn, and maintain the land it was grown on.
Diary of an Organic Farm Apprentice: This Little Piggy Went Down!
You must also abandon all hope of not getting covered in pig poop. Yup. Pig poop.
Diary of an Organic Farm Apprentice: I’m on Chicken Duty
Patience is needed when the girls go home to roost.
Diary of an Organic Farm Apprentice: A Blanket for the Soil
Okay, I get it. A lot of farming is not as romantic as I expected. My back has aged 30 years in 3 months….
Diary of an Organic Farm Apprentice: Meet Your Freshly Sprouted Growers
The stories of these three young farmers might help you forget the average age of the American Farmer is 59.3.
Diary of an Organic Farm Apprentice: The Harvest
Viewing a full field makes a seed seem heavier.
Diary of an Organic Farm Apprentice: Zen and the Art of Cultivation
If what you’re doing is weeding, you’ve waited too long.
Diary of an Organic Farm Apprentice: Meditations on a Morning Field Walk
Part of being a farmer is taking a break from the work and walking the rows in solitude.
Diary of an Organic Farm Apprentice: Farming is Much More than Growing
In our second installment Cristina learns how much she needs to learn.
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