On a rainy evening last week, we released 1500 Laby Beetles into our hoop house. If all goes well, in a few days the Lady Beetles will start to leave clusters of eggs under leaves which will hatch into larvae shortly thereafter. Considering the fact that they’re finding food and that I’ve spotted a few already mating, I…
Category: Field Notes
musings about life and work on the farm
Effortless Gardening Workshop at Synergy Massage & Wellness Center
Greetings fellow gardeners! A dear friend and excellent Feldenkrais teacher is offering a workshop on Effortless Gardening on April 16th at Synergy Massage & Wellness Center. For those of you who don’t head over the mountain too often, it’s definitely worth the trip. Please be in touch if you’d like to carpool. For those of you…
Hi Folks! This is just a quick reminder that we have only a few more weeks for the Intelligent Use of Water Awards grant competition. As many of you know, I was a bit hesitant to sign up at first, not quite sure that we would be able to harness the number of votes we’d need…
Reflection and Planning
As our landscape is buried beneath several inches of fresh snow, I’m dreaming of spring and longing for the joys and abundance of summer. But, as Anne Bradstreet wrote several hundred years ago, “If we had no winter the spring would not be so pleasant.” Winter allows us a moment to pause and reflect on the seasons that have…
Local Foods Network/Transition Group Potluck
At 6:30 pm on Jan. 10th, Amazing Heart Farm will be hosting this month’s Adams County Local Foods Network potluck. Because many of the folks in the Local Foods Network are participating in the Transition Discussion Group, we’ve decided to combine this months meeting to include both. Following the meal, Fred Oberholtzer and Audrey Hess…
Amazing Heart Farm 