The Farmer's Share

Spring Kick-off: Young Farmer Check-in: EP6

This episode comes to you from 3 different locations in central Vermont where we meet with Henry Webb of Old Road Farm, John Hirsh of Clearfield Farm and Taylor Mendell of Footprint Farm These three young farmer friends of mine have been interviewed by me before and this visit checks in to see how their spring is going so far. I visited the first week of April and this episode shares some of what’s happening this time of year on vegetable farms.

Old Road Farm

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Prepping beds for tomatoes
Trialing lowering and leaning this year.
Plenty of snow still in Granville!
The Prophouse
Germination testing of seed
The germination chamber used to start seeds.
The “heat shield” to block trays from drying out.
Peas started in Paperpot
Gabby and Henry pride themselves on how clean these tunnels.
Lettuce is planted into landscape fabric to keep a (mostly) weed free bed.
The main chore this time of year is covering and uncovering greens.
This years spring rock crop from this tunnel!
A newly acquired rock-picker that will need a little tinkering before cleaning up the fields.

Clearfield Farm

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A belted conveyor used to separate potatoes from the dirt brought in from the harvester.
The view’s in the valley are pretty spectacular.
John’s new digger used on fingerling potatoes

Footprint Farm

Instagram: @footprintfarm

Taylors new Harnois propagation house
Is a trampoline/swing a staple in your hoophouse?
Hammocks should come standard in high tunnels 😀
Paper pot lettuce
Farm dog Otto
Farming and parenting? This si what work/life balance looks like in real life.
A hose trolley from Joynny’s is new this year.

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Spring Kick-off: Young Farmer Check-in: EP6 – Transcript

Andy Chamberlin

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