Up on the mountain behind my house, the wild blueberries are ripe and prolific. It’s public land, part of the Maine state-park system, so the berries are free for the picking. In a half-hour or so, if I’m lucky, I can fill a tin cup with enough berries for breakfast, mixed into muffins or pancakes [...]

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Around these parts most of our ripened fruit happened a month or better ago. The only thing  still to come are the pecans in the fall. Even so the following resonates…
The Suburban Life - Thinking Ahead - Editorial - NYTimes.com
It’s a good year for blueberries.
Decades ago, a farmer planted more than a dozen bushes on [...]

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I have never felt that the Corporate pushers of GMOs were looking out for anything other than their own profits. That has led me to look on their actions in an unfavorable light. While this has always been a personal “feeling”, I find my concerns expressed very well by this interview with Claire Hope Cummings
The [...]

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One of  the email missives I look forward to comes in on it’s own schedule each month. It is from Andy Griffin of Mariquita Farm called “The Ladybug Letter”. Andy tells tales of his life in agriculture on the west coast…Funny stories, ironic stories…Stories of life…Great stories…
The Ladybug Letter
As a modern farmer I’m hardly alone [...]

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