Twin Springs Farm

07/31/2018

07/27/2018

We will be at the Nelson Farmers Market tomorrow with Garlic, Shiitake Mushrooms, Adirondack & Yukon Gold Potatoes, lots of Tomatoes !

05/02/2018

04/01/2018

The first row of Carrots are up ! future photo to follow once they get a little larger.

03/24/2018

Today while visiting with family buying stuff on Amazon came up I was amazed at how flippant we have become. It's about convenience and price. You are participating in the destruction of LOCAL commerce. What the Hell do you think happened! In 2017 the U.S. posted a $375.2 billion deficit in goods with China. Here’s all the stuff the U.S. imports from China that’s causing a huge trade deficit. How are you spending YOUR $$$?

President Donald Trump intends to apply tariffs on Chinese goods worth up to $60 billion in an effort to slash the huge U.S. trade deficit with China and protect sensitive technologies. It won’t be easy and it might even be impossible.

03/12/2018

I've posted about JM Fortier before. Spent a whole day with him at VABF 2 years ago. Just bought his new film. If you want to know how to grow intense healthy produce on small acreage. Buy his book and film. This is JM in a field of carrots !

He his the co-founder, with his wife Maude-Hélène Desroches, of Les jardins de la grelinette, an internationally recognized micro-farm in Southern Quebec known for its high productivity and profitability. Since 2015, he is the farm director at Ferme des Quatre-Temps, an experimental farm in Hemm....

03/05/2018

Processing and Storage room almost complete

04/11/2017

I managed to get two layers of row cover over my strawberries before that last cold spell we had a low of 29. The berries had already bloomed because of the above normal temps. I pulled the covers yesterday and they looked great.

03/25/2017

You are looking at a Ladybug Larvae on a Pac Choi leaf taken inside my high tunnel. Ladybugs are just one of many good bug predators.

03/19/2017

This past week we had really hard cold nights for mid-March with lows in the teens. The covers in my high tunnels kept a wonderful assortment of Carrots, Beets, Chinese Cabbage, Lettuce, Kohlrabi, and Radishes HAPPY !

01/21/2017

We are losing 30 soccer fields of soil every minute, mostly due to intensive farming. All you have to do is look at the rivers near you after a good rain. Many experts beleive we have less than 60 years topsoil left. In the U.S. we have degraded around 73% of our soil, Stanford University Study. Cornell's David Pimenel "the problem, which is growing ever more critical, is being ignored because who gets excited about dirt?"

01/15/2017

What a great time of collaboration with fellow bio-organic farmers gardeners suppliers and Ag Extension at the VA Association of Biological Farming Annual Meeting held at the Homestead Resort. Great food and a great lineup of successful rural and urban farmers. Maurice Small who has inspired and trained 1000s of inner-city kids from Detroit to Atlanta. Dan Kittredge founder of Bio Nutrient Food Ass. and Organic farmers with over $ million in farm revenue. Yes there are Organic Farms that big in VA and elsewhere.