Blackbird Farms

Coopersville, Michigan

If I am potting up basil …

… then summer isn’t far away.

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Yeah, buddy, I know how you feel. As we approach the solstice, everything is happening, all at once--seeding, potting on, transplanting, fertilizing, cultivating, weeding, irrigating, harvesting, and probably other things I'm forgetting at the moment. It's now a mad sprint to the start of August, when the work begins to relent, if just a little. Until then, well, #catnap when you can. #staggeronwardrejoicing #verygoodfarmcats #blackbirdfarmscsa

A little seeding this afternoon, under the watchful eye of the new greenhouse manager. #oldmancat #farmcatlife #catsofinstagram

#sundown in #tomatotown. It's been a busy few weeks here at the farm, seeding and transplanting all the delicious vegetables. Now that the nights are reliably warm, we can plant out crops like peppers, eggplant, and, everybody's favorite, #tomatoes--heirlooms and cherries and saladettes and good old big red slicers! (Special thanks to @shackandrice for staying late and farming like a rock star.) #homegrowntomatoes #verygoodvegetables #blackbirdfarmscsa

"I have planted by the stars in defiance of the experts,
and tilled somewhat by incantation and by singing,
and reaped, as I knew, by luck and Heaven's favor,
in spite of the best advice."

• Wendell Berry, "The Contrariness of the Mad Farmer"

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