HeyJaredBeyond the Blue Gate
Musings from an Iowa farmHer on our lives here at Blue Gate Farm and beyond.
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What If We Fail? (opens the original)
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There are days when I wonder if we can work any harder on the farm and still accomplish so little.Earlier this week, we found ourselves harvesting every last usable leaf from our aging kale and chard plantings, trying to gather enough greens to include in our Bounty Boxes. They weren’t the beautiful, generous bunches we normally take pride in delivering. They were what we had.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_Rw4!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_pr
This Wasn't the Plan (opens the original)
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There is a strange disconnect in farming between effort and outcome.We can spend months planning a crop. We order the seeds, start the transplants, prepare the soil, plant, weed, irrigate, trellis, prune, protect and generally fuss over those plants for weeks or months.And sometimes, after all of that, we harvest exactly nothing.You can’t magically manifest a crop into existence just because customers are counting on it. Believe me, there have been plenty of times this season when I’ve tried wis
Weathering Together (opens the original)
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Every morning, just as the world eases from night to not-quite-day, I pull on track pants and a long-sleeved shirt over my pajamas and head out with Peri the Puppy for our dawn walk. Sky the Farm Dog accompanies us, but comes and goes on her own scent-induced errands throughout our tour of the farm. The morning symphony of bird song is just warming up as we wander the fields, the dogs checking in on the “farm-message boards” to see who has passed through in the overnight hours while I look over
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