Life on the farm in its most honest form
- Farmosophy:
- A recounting of life at LotFotL Community Farm.
New!-LotFotL Beefshare program
Don't miss out on this wonderful opportunity to fill your freezer next winter with Beef raised with dignity, at LotFotL proper!
The Weekly Bushel, Week 24, 2009
the last shares of the season roll out of LotFotL this wednesday. What a great season it's been!
The Weekly Bushel, Week 23, 2009
Recipes, thoughts on being certified organic and local food, and 10 valuable lessons of 2009. All inside. Have a looksi!
The Weekly Bushel, Week 22, 2009
Only 3 weeks left in LotFotL's organic CSA season, to Milwaukee and beyond
The Weekly Bushel, Week 21, 2009
Only 4 more certified organic csa distributions left in the regular season. Details inside
The Weekly Bushel, Week 20, 2009
Details what's in store for CSA members in this very cold first week of October, 2009
Worker Share information
Frequently asked questions, policies, shifts, and costs for the 2010 worker share program. For applications, email tim@lotfotl.com
The Weekly Bushel #19, 2009, 2010 CSA sign up edition
Details LotFotL's season extension boxes for November, and also new pricing and a longer season in 2010
The Weekly Bushel #18, 2009
Greetings! Hope your weekend was restful. With the kids (yours, not mine) back in school, the leaves of at least a couple select trees beginning to change colors, and the pollen racking so many people's nasal tracks, fall has declared itself no longer too distant a reality. Still plenty of warm days ahead, as is obvious today. But enough of the weather talk. We've got a great share in store for you, and some exciting news too.
Midwest Magazine Article
I was recently included as a participant in Midwest Express's on flight and online magazine, Mymidwest Magazine. If you're traveling Midwest anytime in the next couple of months, be sure to check out the article. If not, here's the content.
Shame on you Gwen Moore, David Obey, and Tammy Baldwin!
I try not to use this site for political purposes, but these 3 and so many others have pushed me too far.
Pick the Fields Clean 2008
Pick the Fields Clean
Greetings!
With Casey and Hannah long gone on winter adventures,
I'm left a bit lonely out here on these chilly November afternoons. The good news
though is that the warmth has left a decent amount of good looking produce in the
fields.
The Weekly Bushel 3/25/09
Tim here. I try to use this forum to let you know not only about what we sell, but also just about how things are going out here. This email then will be dual purpose. In trying times like these we need succinct descriptions, cogent and clear plans, but also musn't shy away from soaring rhetoric, banter and ballyhoo. So, this email will tell you: 1. what we're selling, how much we still have left, and how much we want you to partake with us, and 2. how your crops (for those of you enrolled in our CSA program) are doing. It will do so very simply, and most assuredly, in ridiculously flashy prose. ...
CSA sign up bulletin 3/11/09
Life on the farm has begun, albeit a bit slowly. This time of year, the beginning of the end of winter, I feel a bit as a turtle must, unsure if sticking my neck out of my shell is prudent just yet. The buzzards of march are somewhat unforgiving, to be sure, but the heat, the springtime winds, and oh, the rain, is so divine and tempting, that every so often, i take the chance. ...
State of the CSA February 2009
Hello all. Tim here. I'm back from three weeks of buses, bikes, trains, planes, buddhas, pad thai, and so many other things that make up the heart of Old Siam. Although my brain is still partly on the beach, and partly shoved under the awning of a tuk-tuk, I've made some good early progress toward establishing what promises to be a season of advancement for LotFotL and its membership. I have some exciting new offerings to share with you, am looking for a bit of help (it's painless, no worries), and want to meet up with some of you soon. Read on for more details!
The Weekly Bushel Winter Edition #1
So, the growing season ends, and the planning season begins. I used to get overrun with giddiness and enthusiasm about this time of the year. The sense of anticipation that comes with setting up planting schedules is not at all dissimilar from the feelings I got making a good snowfort, executing the perfect flea flicker in our backyard's very own frozen tundra, or the coffee stained outlines that lead to breathy, pretensous days of trying to lay out the perfect words for what always ended up a satisfyingly imperfect final paper. ...
The Weekly Bushel #20 2008
We got a killing frost on Saturday. I went out to look at things on Saturday morning and the crops were laden with fine crystals of ice and looked very beautiful. But, that beauty came at a cost ...
The Weekly Bushel #19 2008
“The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The reddish, amittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious. ...
The Weekly Bushel #18, 2008
The Weekly Bushel
#18, 2008
Howdy,
Fall is here! Although we've got a bit of an indian summer right now, fall is in the air. Some trees here are starting to turn color, nights are much cooler, and the sun is setting much sooner. What that means for you is fall vegetables.
The weekly bushel #15
September has a way of urging along the finishing run of the season. I notice this in the shortening day lengths, the woods smelling of mushrooms, the chill in the early morning air, and in my temptations to find the first trees turning yellow and brown. As I mowed down foxtail and pigweed today, I thought about some of the most obvious lessons I've learned this season ...
The Weekly Bushel #12
Welcome to another week of LotFotL produce. This week, we are finally getting into some of our most heavily desireable hot season fruits. While tomatoes are very abundant and should grace everyone's shares in full force next week or the week after, melons, big bell peppers, and eggplant ...
James Godsil Interview for Milwaukee Renaissance
I was at the park one afternoon distributing shares with my friend Ami and her son Loki (the unofficial "LotFotLer") when this man with wild hair dropped by asking about the plant sale...
Lessons from Old Siam
What have I been doing over the winter?
Prayers for no rain
The Last few days and nights had been rough, for reasons I'm still discovering. I got pulled over, discovered that many of the places in the world so much of me used to inhabit are now saturated and leaving little room or need for me.
