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The Ithaca market is not all that hard to get into. You start out in a program where you get to the market early and sign up, first one gets forst pick of the unreserved booths and the booth location ...

I realized I had not posted anything since July. We had a great year with potatoes and carrots and were very happy to add that stuff to the markets without running out in 2 weeks. Interestingly, I ...

I did two markets every week last year in Ithaca, Jo. The Tuesday one at the park was casual and fun and paid pretty well. Then we did the Sunday market and a couple Saturdays. Liked Sunday better, ...

Been getting a huge amount of rain this year. The temps and all the water have resulted in incredible growth, mostly in weeds! Markets have started and seem to draw more folks than last year. That ...

I also smiled at your financially challenged first day. My only recommendation is not to give stuff away, as you devalue your own efforts. Sure, I throw in some scallions with a 9 dollar bag of othe ...

In case anyone wondered, MoonLasso is just Eric, again. When the forum required registration, I used our farm name. There was a good thread a while back on how we name our farms. I ran with the con ...

Spent about 3 hours mowing a hay pasture we had left alone for a couple seasons to try and get it back in condition. Only about 8 acres, but slow going! It looks great now and I think we should be ab ...

I was posting my thoughts elsewhere and decided to come "home" to go on a bit.

Rather than ramble, I want to focus on what people buy from you at the markets. It was quite an eye-opening ...

Just because you have no lights and heated greenhouses is no big problem. You won't be the FIRST tomato at market, but neither will you be the ONLY one who plants seeds by the weather's whims. So ma ...

You may want to re-think how much you are planting if you are hoping to attend even one farm market. If you are lucky and get 5 peppers off every plant (not gonna happen all at once) you will be out o ...

Hey Hilltop. Yes, the Shetlands are purebreds. The fact we have a ram is an accident since we bought 3 supposed "wethers" along with the ewe, mainly for wool and grass-mowing. Those two li ...

We lost both the goat kids. The blind one was no shock, but the other one was. She was doing great and was gone 12 hours later. Now we are dealing with a Shetland sheep ewe who had 2 lambs this aft ...

One of our goats had twins this morning. Unfortunately, the buckling was weak and is not doing too well, plus he seems to be blind. Have heard that he may regain sight after some feeding and care an ...

trying out the new registered version of "me". I saw CP's comment about longer days and I agree - its great to have the daylight! I have to either fix my electric fence this weekend or sho ...