Ichneumon ambulatorius this morning on Little Gem lettuce. A parasitic nectar feeding wasp.

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Late season daikon germinating next to volunteer summer squash from this summer. Cultivation time soon… need soils to dry out just a bit. Here’s one of our final field successions of lettuce heads; they were transplanted Sept 18th. Established well through the deluge.

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Impressive lack of leaf drop with our nor’easter - thanks to July’s rainfall I reckon. Should still have good color down the line. All told maybe 7” of rain; and some of the crops look a bit steamrolled from the heaviest downpours. See dirt splashed up on the little gems (Newham) this variety probably needs tighter density - 5 rows to keep it cleaner in the fields in the future. They cleaned up well enough; just need to switch out wash tank water more frequently.

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Reckon we’ll lose power any moment. Blowing pretty good right now Brassicas this morning… gn

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The Collapse of Farm Exports Is the Most Underappreciated Story in American Politics https://reason.com/2026/09/24/the-collapse-of-farm-exports-is-the-most-underappreciated-story-in-american-politics/

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Final (?) after dark tp session of 2026? Setting out sine brassicas before tomorrow’s rain. This is broccoli Raab. Wrapped up by 8PM - it gets dark early these days. Enough time to watch a show with my wife, listen to some football, and discover Australian bird twitter. gn

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An example of the types of reports I'm generating with Claude's integration into our Farm Management software (WiseConn). Today we had a question on "Why are we seeing pressure spikes in our lower blocks?" We knew our drop in elevation was part of the equation but how irrigating different blocks affects the water hammer & pressure was not nearly as well understood. From this we have a pretty clear course of action we can take and better understand where we need to add additional pressure sensors to really solve the problem.

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Pit Stop Honey bee & arugula Wasn’t tracking so well cause I was watching directly.

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Silhouette 7:40 PM Fieldwork done for the day…

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ants & zucchini blossom

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ants & habanero

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I will continue to use my one account to farm… scallions.

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The flail mower is such a beautiful machine… we have been way… way… way behind getting this field flipped for either fall planting or a cover crop. Thanks to the wet July and sunny August; the spring beds were a jungle of 6’ pigweed and other weeds… One or two passes to get close to ground; quick round of rock picking before scalping as low as possible. Now ready for tillage. We’re going to pay for the delayed attention with weed pressure next season; yet with a bit of work these beds will be ready to plant within a week. Some of these beds were ready for mowing the final week of July. Alas. Upside to weeds is they will add a bit of quick digesting organic matter to feed the microbes. First photo is post flail mowing and second is an example of weed growth before…

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Last night’s transplants getting a nice watering in courtesy of the sky. Shikibu Red Choi Greens season loading…

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It’s been dry most of August; after a very, very wet July. So we’ll take tonight’s rain as a blessing. Just coming into the brief heavier rain. More on the way Tuesday > Thursday they say. A 20 sec clip Saturday evening recorded at a quarter to eight; after harvesting cilantro. Sound on if you enjoy the bugs… getting dark rather early these days.

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