Yesterday, I took the girls blueberry picking with my mom. The afternoon was overcast and a little windy, which made a perfect day for blueberry picking. Lillian ate most of the blueberries and Shi tried to balance her time between eating and filling her homemade blueberry bucket (fashioned out of a plastic bottle decorated with [...]
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Friday Favorite – Blueberries for Shi
July 27, 2012In my garden
April 28, 2011The warm spring weather this week made it the perfect time to do a little gardening. With 10 weeks left in my pregnancy, my time to work on my garden is starting to get limited! Charlotte played in her sand box on Tuesday and Wednesday, Macie dog slept in the grass and I got down [...]
Day on the Farm
March 31, 2011The month of April starts tomorrow and with the beginning of April comes the start of the cranberry growing season. I’ve worked throughout the winter on the farm (in the office) and have put in place the foundation for irrigation automation on our bogs. We’ve used irrigation automation on a small scale last year and [...]
Buy Fresh, Buy Local
March 10, 2011Recently, I’ve become involved with the South Eastern Massachusetts Agricultural Partnership (SEMAP). I’ve joined the organization and am helping with a few upcoming events and programs. SEMAP is dedicated to preserving and expanding access to local food and sustainable farming in southeasternMassachusetts through research and education. SEMAP is a 501(c)(3), tax exempt, private, non-profit organization. SEMAP received its 501(c)(3) [...]
Filming the Ocean Spray Commerical
October 8, 2010My parents own a small bog that is nestled in the Myles Standish State Forest. It’s so beautiful there that not only did I choose the location for my wedding, Ocean Spray found it a perfect background for their commercials. And yes, I’m talking about the ones where Justin and Henry are standing in water [...]
Picture Perfect Day for a Harvest
September 22, 2010Over the weekend both our dad’s officially started their harvest. Uncle Ben (Alison’s dad) began flooding up bogs and initiated the wet harvest. A few miles away my dad was on his hands and knees dry harvesting with a scoop. Michael’s mom was in town visiting for a few days so we thought what a [...]
Weed Maps – Field Review
September 9, 2010I am back working on the cranberry bogs once to twice a week. Today I worked with my Dad on creating weed maps by doing field reviews of our acres. By examining the weeds at the end of the growing season, we can start to plan our strategy for reducing the weed pressures next year. [...]
Counting Cranberries
August 5, 2010Learning the art of cranberry cultivation has taken me onto and off the bogs. Sometimes, I’m right on the bogs examining the blossoms or fruit and other times, like this week, I felt like I was a scientist in a lab (the lab being my home!) And tonight I was pulling an “all nighter” trying [...]
Perfect summer meal
July 13, 2010We had a perfect summer meal (corn, beans and summer squash) the vegetables are from a local Rochester, MA farm, Cervelli Farms.
Bog work update and the Beach!
July 12, 2010I wanted to take time to talk about my work on the farm and something I treasure dearly – the beach! Cranberry work: Each year cranberry growers measure the out-of-bloom (oob) count on the bogs as part of integrated pest management (IPM) techniques. This year as part of my work on the farm, I worked [...]