JUL 13 (Sun): The latest mini-heatwave continues. Heavy cloud cover, a pocket of precipitation on the radar, and a thunderstorm weather watch don’t guarantee rain!
Celebrating the small scale
Tiny Farm grows in small quantities, pretty much like a home veg garden where every few days you harvest whatever is ready. Unlike mass-produced vegetables—standardized and shippable—a tiny farm’s harvest is greatly shaped by changes in weather. A dry spell, a heat wave, downpour, it all affects everything. Each weekly harvest is a little bit different, a small celebration of the wonders and the perils of the growing season.
Tended by hand
Hand-tended means literally down in the dirt: pulling weeds, plucking bad bugs, getting muddy when it’s wet. At small scale, big agricultural machines simply don’t fit. Instead, there are basic garden tools: rake, hoe, and scuffler, digging fork, harvest knife. Timing is the key: weed early, water when needed, because it only takes a few days for things to start getting out of hand. With a keen daily eye and a little discipline, it’s amazing how versatile and effective a person on the ground can be! For more on growing practices, see about Tiny Farm.
Proof is in the harvest
The weekly harvest is what makes it all worthwhile—freshly dug carrots, just-picked tomatoes, newly snipped salad greens. Small-scale growing is a daily challenge; growing for others, the satisfaction of sharing out the results, is what makes it make sense. The Tiny Farm harvest season this year begins with the first early crops in late June, and gets into full swing later in July through October. As the season progresses, each weekly harvest includes new crops as they become ready to pick. See the Vegetables page for a list of what’s in the garden for 2025, and Ordering for all the details!
The tiny farm adventure
Fresh food picked up directly from the farm, like a hike in the woods, is a bit of a local adventure. You get to know the place and the season’s challenges—drought, heat waves, pest invasions—that were overcome. Whether from a home garden or a local tiny farm, food with its story intact is an affordable seasonal luxury that keeps alive a real-world connection. You can follow the season’s growing adventures on the farm blog, a photo journal of day-to-day work in the field: seedlings, weather, pests, tools and repairs, right to harvest. Growth, successes, setbacks, it’s all there. For more info, check the Veggies and About pages. Or just email me—ask me anything!
To see what’s in each harvest throughout the season, get the weekly veggie update: