Started flipping a house we didn’t push through the winter today. 40s outside, 70 inside with a single layer of greenhouse poly (it was 80 inside the smaller prop house). Pulling the remnants of old spinach, cilantro, chard, and kale. Don’t typically have empty space early January, yet will probably hold off on planting til sometime in February unless we see a significant warm trend late month (haven’t seen yet). Our “fieldhouses” are 30’x96’ or 10m x 32m - ~3000 sq ft or 300 sq m 3 of them will be in production later this spring. All are unheated, passive solar yet give us a nice early and late season micro climate.

6 replies

10 recasts

118 reactions

Coriander's growth I forgot to add Same 20 days care

8 replies

3 recasts

23 reactions

The absolute best arugula, paired with the absolute best red butterhead lettuce. Incredible combo.

0 reply

1 recast

2 reactions

https://farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2025/12/usda-unveils-700m-regenerative-agriculture-program/

0 reply

0 recast

2 reactions

https://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/csdb/en/

0 reply

0 recast

0 reaction

Mulch report! Our first mulch delivery for our younger lemons planted 3-4 years ago. This happens to be citrus mulch. I hope the trees don’t mind 😱

2 replies

1 recast

7 reactions

Volunteer tomato seedling still holding on; though will get zapped on Thursday night when forecast is for 14 degrees. Swiss Chard post harvest and pac choi from a fieldhouse this afternoon. Just about wrapped up with harvests for 2025. Not pushing deep winter production this year; so we’ll have a gap until harvests pick up again in mid April.

4 replies

1 recast

27 reactions

So many seedling these days 😜 1. Cucumber 2. Bitter Gourd (one variant) 3. Bitter Gourd ( another variant)

9 replies

3 recasts

18 reactions

A cautionary tale on producing expensive hardware for an industry in decline: https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/19/monarch-tractor-preps-for-layoffs-and-warns-employees-it-may-shut-down/

2 replies

0 recast

6 reactions

It’s awesome to see our settling ponds this full so early in the season. When we are lucky enough to have rains a significant portion of that water is directed into ponds like these all throughout California. Our agricultural wells near these pumps have seen a significant rise in water level as we recharge the aquifers with rain water. It’s not possible to store this much water above ground but there’s tremendous natural storage below.

2 replies

0 recast

14 reactions

Fall mulch, crop & grafting update on our Gem avocados

2 replies

0 recast

8 reactions

Charbelle from a fieldhouse this morning. Harvests slowing down for the season.

2 replies

1 recast

20 reactions

Beavers are pretty amazing… Not always easy if you’re farming. https://x.com/thinkethso/status/1987880774566322440?s=46

0 reply

0 recast

2 reactions

Now that’s some ROOTS! Our peppery arugula 😋

1 reply

0 recast

4 reactions

https://x.com/michaelcrews6/status/1986134041364738051?s=46 Good summer of grass on the high plains. Click & Sound up for a bit of real world.

0 reply

0 recast

0 reaction