As part of his annual crop rotation scheme, Leigh Hauter over the years had planted garlic just about everywhere he could on his farm except for this strip of land on the slope just below his greenhouse. The previous owners of Bull Run Farm had not done much in the way of erosion control. “There […]
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I took my usual walk to the Dupont Circle farmers market on Sunday and was surprised to see that the West Virginia farm family from whom we buy eggs had dropped the price of a dozen 75 cents to $4. “A sign of the times?” I asked the farm wife. I thought perhaps demand had […]
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This is the first in what we hope will be a regular series of articles about Leigh Hauter and his CSA operation at Bull Run Farm in The Plains, Virginia. Leigh has been farming in the Washington area for 15 years, first at the Cheseapeake Bay Foundation’s Clagett Farm in Prince George’s County. He was […]
Tags:broccoli·Bull Run Farm·CSA·eggplant·local farming·peppers·seeds·spring·tomatoes
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