Today, not having corn to sell is kind of a bummer, however it did give me a chance to work on some equipment, like the disc I just purchased. And, to keep myself from the dark side, I worked on a few more details of the tricycle; fender, chain gaurd, refelctors. In keeping with the South American style, I suppose I'll have to come up with at least three more reflectors and some fancy mud flaps.

tomorrow, August 21st, we'll have a nice load of corn at the Minneapolis Farmers Market.
hope to see you there.

The effects of the cool wet May have been gradually creeping up on us, meaning, no corn for Saturday Aug 20th.
I'm hopeful we can pick enough for the Sunday Market.

the next plantings look much better and we'll have plenty of corn.

2011 Market Schedule

Weds: University of Minnesota Farmers Market, Church Street; 11:00 am - 2:00pm

Thurs: Nicollet Mall Farmers Market, 8th and Nicollet; 9:30 am - 3:00 pm

Sat: Minneapolis Farmers Market, 6:00am - 1:00pm

Sat: Mill City Farmers Market, 8:00 am - 1:00pm

Sunday: Minneapolis Farmers Market, 6:00am - 1:00pm

Kind of hard to tell just how many coats of paint on this sign, however, a fresh coat can only mean one thing; sweet corn season has arrived. We have some really nice corn coming ripe for the weekend. You can find us Saturday and Sunday at the Minneapolis Farmers Market 6am-1pm, and Saturday at the Mill City Farmers market 8am to 1pm.

i have some pretty big mits, so, objects next to them may appear smaller than they really are.
2 inches of rain today and impending hot weather leads me to believe 10 days to the first drizzling of corn; 3 weeks to watermelon.

i was checking on corn today, taking a few photos. the patch is pollinating and full of bees.
corn does not require a pollinator, however, the bees want the pollen. my neighbor, a knowledgeable fellow, says they will use this to cap the honey.
as i was observing the bees and trying to get a few photos, i thought to myself, i sure am glad this is not a gmo corn meant to kill insects because if it was, it sure wouldnt be great to have all that pollen hauled back to the hive. and i cant help but wonder, with all the bt/gmo corn grown across the country, couldnt that be a contributing factor to colony collapse?

Today, driving a tractor down hwy 12 was an eye opening experience. In a way, when riding a bike, I had been operating under the notion that people just didn’t like bikers. I thought if I was driving a tractor with a machine on the back, I would be wider and slower, but people would be more understanding and give more room. Well, the reality is, they are not. They are not understanding and they give less room. And, on a bike at least I can get out of the way, or try, but on a tractor I’m kind of stuck out in traffic and who am I to take away someone’s god given right to keep their foot on the gas no matter what. Maybe its painful to let up on the gas, I don’t know, I drive a car a lot like a tractor so even slow seems fast to me.

I talked to another farmer; he said, when he’s on the road he takes the whole lane; because if he hugs the shoulder they try and squeeze by at high speed, traffic or no, they’re coming through.

I’d like to blame the Republicans, and maybe some limousine liberal Democrats, but I have a feeling this is a bipartisan effort to get where one is going as fast as you can while keeping in constant contact with all friends using any and all hand held devises sipping a coke eating a burger petting one’s dog and catering to the kids every whim. It’s the American dream.

That state budget thing. What a bummer. No one is going to give in. We cant even slow down