Can the farmer get too much rain? “I haven’t seen anything like this in 10 years,” says Leigh Hauter of our dreary weather lately in the Washington, D.C.area. “This is spring, but you usually have more time to get things in the ground. This is a bad one.” Leigh should be setting his tomatoes and […]
Tags:CSA·local farming·local foods·planting·seedlings·spring
What with the confrontation between dogs and bears and the opossums eating the chickens, it was a very busy week for farmer Lee Hauter. An unholy row forced Lee out of bed one night. A bear he recognized from last fall apparently had risen from its long hibernation and approached the farm looking very skinny […]
Tags:asparagus·CSA·local farming
Very delicately, and while getting stung only twice, Leigh Hauter this week started 10 new bee hives on Bull Run Farm. Leigh is acquainted with a man who travels the country with his bees, pollinating crops, and also sells bees on the side. Even though the thermometer barely registered 40 degrees, the bees Leigh ordered […]
Tags:bees·CSA·local farming
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