Visit the FRESH website to watch a trailer for the movie. Tickets are only $10 and there's a limited number available, so it is sure to sell out. There will also be a panel discussion after the film. Hope to see you there!
Jessica
Thursday, August 27, 2009
"FRESH: The Movie" Screening
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The Georgia Chapters of the Weston A. Price Foundation are screening the movie FRESH on Saturday, October 17th from 3-6pm at Five Seasons Brewing Westside. Above & Beyond Farm is excited to sponsor the event, which will serve as a fundraiser for bringing Sally Fallon to Atlanta next fall. Click on the flier below for more information, including how to buy tickets.
Visit the FRESH website to watch a trailer for the movie. Tickets are only $10 and there's a limited number available, so it is sure to sell out. There will also be a panel discussion after the film. Hope to see you there!
Jessica
Visit the FRESH website to watch a trailer for the movie. Tickets are only $10 and there's a limited number available, so it is sure to sell out. There will also be a panel discussion after the film. Hope to see you there!
Jessica
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Summer Season is Drawing to a Close
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(Posted Monday, August 10, 2009....not 8/1/09 as blogger says.)
Yes, lately we've had an abundance of heirlooms ripening on the vines and our glorious Sun Golds are trying to hold strong, but I can see the tomato plants are quickly giving in to the heat. We're also watching as our summer squash and cucumbers give us their last fruits. It's becoming more and more obvious that it's time to say goodbye to the season. Hard to believe that just weeks ago we had more zucchini and lemon cucumbers than we could sell at two Saturday markets combined, and now we view each piece we harvest as a precious victory that maybe our plants will hold out....just for one more week?
Which is also to say - this will be our last week at our regular Farmers' Markets. After Saturday (8/15/09), we'll be taking a hiatus for a yet-to-be-determined amount of time. Studioplex & F.A.R.M. : We'll miss you for a little while, but we'll be back! I really want to thank all of the volunteers over the past several weeks who responded to my ads for help with the harvests on Tuesday and Friday mornings, but especially Joann who came out to help every Tuesday morning before market. Not only couldn't we have attended the market without her, she was also great company in the field. And AMBER - You've been incredible. Thank you thank you thank you for everything you've helped with!
Fresh Onions & Leeks & Delicata
The Whole Spread (8/1/09)
Hot Peppers (Jalepenos, Cascabellas, Habaneros, Cayennes)
Sweet Peppers (Banana, Bell, & Cubanelle)
Heirlooms, before we had too many to contain in one basket!
We've started planting a few fall crops, but on a smaller scale than what we planted this past spring. Joaquin and I will be welcoming a baby (and future farmhand, of course!) into our family next month, and our attention may just be called away from the field for a while. But in addition to already having our winter squash sitting in the field and curing for fall, we should soon have sweet carrots, more sugar snap peas, another round of chard and basil, spinach, beets, broccoli, head lettuce, and a few other cooler weather vegetables.
This winter we'll be spending a good amount of our time planning for next spring & summer - hopefully ensuring that by this time next year we'll have even tastier, more bountiful heirlooms. With any luck, plants that will hold out for 6 or 7 weeks, instead of just 4! We have high hopes for next spring; certainly we can only improve from here on out. Joaquin's been working a lot with compost tea lately, brewing up a couple batches a week and using it as foliar spray as well as
drenching the soil near the plant roots with his concoctions. He's working hard to ensure a healthy eco-system between the bugs and the plants in the field. And it's been fun using the microscope I bought him for his birthday to see what exactly is going on inside that life-giving tea.
For our very first season farming our own land, I think we've seen an encouraging 4 months. We've brought in many beautiful harvests, grown a nice variety of crops, and most importantly, learned a good deal about farming in the south. There have been huge successes with a few failures thrown in to keep us on our toes. But to see so many repeat customers at the markets gives us the greatest sense of accomplishment. And it's not such a bad thing to have sold some of our harvest to a few great Atlanta restaurants either!
In what direction the future of our farm is headed has become the main topic of nightly discussions. It's been difficult for everyone commuting to the farm daily and it's definitely not sustainable to successfully manage a farm in this manner. Living on the land would be ideal and all four of us are continuing to brainstorm options to see how we can make that happen. Soon.
Livestock is another big part of the farm that we haven't fully tapped into yet. We have our pastured poultry but we'd really love to get our goat herd up and going this winter, in addition to some pigs. And on top of that, it's been suggested that we start cultivating mushrooms. We've taken a couple classes on growing mushrooms, and my mom even bought Joaquin an inoculated Shiitake log at one point, but that's about the extent of our mushroom growing knowledge. Still, I definitely think it's something we'll look into some more - so many untapped markets and opportunities out there just waiting for people who have the time!
I'll leave you with some pictures as well as a few administrative notes. First, we now have a live listing on Local Harvest. If any of you who have visited or shopped with us feel like taking a minute to write a quick review of our farm, it sure would be appreciated! Also, we've been lucky enough to have a good friend of ours offer to help start up a *real* website, rather than just this blog. He's given me a lot of "homework" to do in order to put the site together, but hopefully I'll be able to use some new-found downtime to tackle his outline and soon enough we'll have an official farm website. (Thank you, Byron.)
Until next time, Happy Eating!
Jessica
Our Egg Layers, just a few days old
The feather footed ones are my favorites
One of our Guinea Fowl Flock
(Posted Monday, August 10, 2009....not 8/1/09 as blogger says.)Yes, lately we've had an abundance of heirlooms ripening on the vines and our glorious Sun Golds are trying to hold strong, but I can see the tomato plants are quickly giving in to the heat. We're also watching as our summer squash and cucumbers give us their last fruits. It's becoming more and more obvious that it's time to say goodbye to the season. Hard to believe that just weeks ago we had more zucchini and lemon cucumbers than we could sell at two Saturday markets combined, and now we view each piece we harvest as a precious victory that maybe our plants will hold out....just for one more week?
Which is also to say - this will be our last week at our regular Farmers' Markets. After Saturday (8/15/09), we'll be taking a hiatus for a yet-to-be-determined amount of time. Studioplex & F.A.R.M. : We'll miss you for a little while, but we'll be back! I really want to thank all of the volunteers over the past several weeks who responded to my ads for help with the harvests on Tuesday and Friday mornings, but especially Joann who came out to help every Tuesday morning before market. Not only couldn't we have attended the market without her, she was also great company in the field. And AMBER - You've been incredible. Thank you thank you thank you for everything you've helped with!
Fresh Onions & Leeks & Delicata
The Whole Spread (8/1/09)
Hot Peppers (Jalepenos, Cascabellas, Habaneros, Cayennes)
Sweet Peppers (Banana, Bell, & Cubanelle)
Heirlooms, before we had too many to contain in one basket!
We've started planting a few fall crops, but on a smaller scale than what we planted this past spring. Joaquin and I will be welcoming a baby (and future farmhand, of course!) into our family next month, and our attention may just be called away from the field for a while. But in addition to already having our winter squash sitting in the field and curing for fall, we should soon have sweet carrots, more sugar snap peas, another round of chard and basil, spinach, beets, broccoli, head lettuce, and a few other cooler weather vegetables.
This winter we'll be spending a good amount of our time planning for next spring & summer - hopefully ensuring that by this time next year we'll have even tastier, more bountiful heirlooms. With any luck, plants that will hold out for 6 or 7 weeks, instead of just 4! We have high hopes for next spring; certainly we can only improve from here on out. Joaquin's been working a lot with compost tea lately, brewing up a couple batches a week and using it as foliar spray as well as
drenching the soil near the plant roots with his concoctions. He's working hard to ensure a healthy eco-system between the bugs and the plants in the field. And it's been fun using the microscope I bought him for his birthday to see what exactly is going on inside that life-giving tea.For our very first season farming our own land, I think we've seen an encouraging 4 months. We've brought in many beautiful harvests, grown a nice variety of crops, and most importantly, learned a good deal about farming in the south. There have been huge successes with a few failures thrown in to keep us on our toes. But to see so many repeat customers at the markets gives us the greatest sense of accomplishment. And it's not such a bad thing to have sold some of our harvest to a few great Atlanta restaurants either!
In what direction the future of our farm is headed has become the main topic of nightly discussions. It's been difficult for everyone commuting to the farm daily and it's definitely not sustainable to successfully manage a farm in this manner. Living on the land would be ideal and all four of us are continuing to brainstorm options to see how we can make that happen. Soon.
Livestock is another big part of the farm that we haven't fully tapped into yet. We have our pastured poultry but we'd really love to get our goat herd up and going this winter, in addition to some pigs. And on top of that, it's been suggested that we start cultivating mushrooms. We've taken a couple classes on growing mushrooms, and my mom even bought Joaquin an inoculated Shiitake log at one point, but that's about the extent of our mushroom growing knowledge. Still, I definitely think it's something we'll look into some more - so many untapped markets and opportunities out there just waiting for people who have the time!
I'll leave you with some pictures as well as a few administrative notes. First, we now have a live listing on Local Harvest. If any of you who have visited or shopped with us feel like taking a minute to write a quick review of our farm, it sure would be appreciated! Also, we've been lucky enough to have a good friend of ours offer to help start up a *real* website, rather than just this blog. He's given me a lot of "homework" to do in order to put the site together, but hopefully I'll be able to use some new-found downtime to tackle his outline and soon enough we'll have an official farm website. (Thank you, Byron.)
Until next time, Happy Eating!
Jessica
Our Egg Layers, just a few days old
The feather footed ones are my favorites
What a beautiful rooster!
They won't be little much longer (8/2/09)
One of our Guinea Fowl Flock
Big Tom day dreaming about lusher pastures
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