May 2, 2025

Elevating designs in spring and summer   As a flower farmer and an ambassador of the Slow Flower Movement (which promotes local, seasonal, and sustainable floriculture), I always try to come up with beautiful eye-catching combinations that make an impression. Beautiful flowers should always start a conversation. Like many of you, I can fill fields […]

Beyond the wheelbarrow and loader   Perkins’ Good Earth Farm is a permanent bed, deep compost, no-till, and certified organic vegetable farm. I want to share our journey from a low-till to no-till system to encourage others to consider how this production system might apply to your farms. Going into 2025, my wife, Julie, and

We were skeptical too until we read this article…   This year, we are bringing three new employees onto the farm after losing someone who had been with us for four seasons. So, I’m thinking hard about how to “onboard” them and give them the information necessary to do a great job with harvest, seeding,

And tips for improving germination of direct seeded crops   This winter I finally replaced the plastic on our hoop house which was getting a bit ratty after many years of abuse from wind, rain, sun and vandals with knives (our most annoying urban farming pest). The plastic wasn’t completely useless though, so I returned

Identification, life cycle, management and more   Aphids are perhaps the soft-bodied insect pest most well-known to both farmers and gardeners. There are many different species of aphids, but green peach (Myzus persicae), melon (Aphis gossypii), potato (Macrosiphum euphorbiae), and foxglove (Aulacorthum solani) are some of the most common aphid species of concern for market