Simple Times Farm & Stables Blog

When we were young, my mother would occasionally take a compendium of leftovers and merge them into a dish called goulash. This update – like my mother’s dish will be a potpourri of farm life mutterings designed to inform and inspire.
On the home front . . . My father passed away this week. He was [...]

If the title of this post means anything to you, you know more than I did about the composition of soil. This season we are learning the quick and hard lessons of growing in less than ideal situations.
Cold and wet have contributed to underdevelopment in our new gardens, last year’s quack grass has formed [...]

Collared Greens, Red Romaine, Green Leaf Lettuce, Chinese Cabbage, and our own wonderful Salato Cheese (Crumbled for summer salad topping) are all on the menu for this week’s pickup.
Come on back to the dairy and get your order from the display fridge. As last week, Full shares are on top and half on the [...]

In response to Ethan’s post on “board farmers get creative” – I thought the words board farmer were an oxymoron?! I know all of us here at Simple Times Farm can probably name a dozen things that could or should still be done when we drop into bed for the night!
On the schedule for today [...]

Take a look at the Klaty post at www.thegreenstewards.com. The Klaty’s are the founders of Simple Time Farm and are furthering the cause of sustainable and smart farming through their urban “farm” in Flint, MI.
We had fun delivering their chicken tractor, chickens, and goats yesterday and are looking forward to sending out more farm “representatives” [...]

For all you CSA members who are wondering whether or not there is a harvest coming – get ready. First pick-up will be next week June 30 and later and will continue after that.
The wet spring combined with the cold has contributed to a later launch, but we are anticipating a good harvest continuing well [...]

The thought that somewhere there is an existence that is calm, peaceful, and without stress is without doubt Utopian . . .

This video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McvCJley78A ), although idealistic, remains true and raises some interesting points about our choices, values, and priorities. It seems that the life described by this fisherman is only available when people, as a community decided to move that direction together.
What can we, as the Simple Times Community, do to begin working together [...]