Potomac Vegetable Farms

The calm before the (tomato) storm by Julie Eden

July 15, 2010, 11:45 am / posted by Ellen / Link

July 15, 2010

Recently, I’ve been slowing down a lot every time I drive by one of the three — no four — wait no… let me think a second… SEVEN — different patches where we’re growing tomatoes on the farm. For the last week or so I’ve begun to see little glimmers of red among the leaves. I’ve peeked into the cherry tomatoes a few times and spotted one or two ripe tangerine-colored Sun Sugar tomatoes, which may well be my favorite food in the whole world.

We’ve been picking tomatoes from our hoop house for the last two or three weeks and it’s now pretty loaded, serving as a great sneak preview of what’s to come. Yesterday we even picked about six baskets (in other words, no more than some spare change) of the first heirlooms from the field to sell at our roadside stand. But most of the tomatoes we have are still green and growing.

It’s my first year working at PVF, but everyone who was around last year has repeatedly warned me that I haven’t really experienced this farm until tomato season is it full swing. They tell me we’ll spend entire days doing nothing but picking tomatoes. They tell me we’ll have two or three extra people working at market, just to keep the tomatoes “under control”. They talk of eating four or five tomatoes whole, over the course of an afternoon. Given all the pretext, and the massive quantities of green tomatoes bulging in the fields, I can feel it coming. It feels just like when we felt the pressure drop and saw the rain clouds finally coming in from the west last Friday evening, just before the sky opened up for the first time in about two weeks.

For now, things are pretty calm. We have lots of food, but nothing that’s overwhelming us. Spring crops like kale, peas and spinach are completely over. We are just finishing harvesting one last planting of lettuce. Our first planting of summer squash and cucumbers has passed it’s peak and the second one is just starting to kick in. We are continuing to harvest a steady flow of okra, beets and chard. Eggplants and peppers are starting to pick up in abundance. We’ve also begun digging potatoes and will soon finish harvesting all our alliums (onions, shallots, and garlic).

Almost all our summer crops are in, with the only major exception being our tomatoes.

Even with our full-fledged CSA starting last week, everything seems to be under control. We’ve done a few more tomato stringings this week, and this afternoon three of us actually had time to weed the celery and celeriac. Things are calm enough right now that we’ve got a pretty comfortable routine. We’re just bracing ourselves in anticipation of the tomato bonanza that’s about to begin.

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What’s Happening at PVF West? by Becky

May 12, 2010, 4:43 am / posted by Ellen / Link

It’s May, and of course that means we’ve gotten a hard frost the last two nights. Everything seems to have survived by some miracle that we won’t question, and we’re breathing a sigh of relief as we stuff more plants in the ground. Because that’s what we do in May. We plant. And mulch. And plant. And weed.

Izzi, Zeke and Becky planting tomatoes

April 30 was a great big benchmark day. Our first round of tomatoes, somewhere around 1400 plants, went in the ground! This will be our first of three tomato plantings that will sustain us through the season. We planted Celebrity, Cherokee Purple, Pink Beauty, Sweet Tangerine, Juliet, Sun Sugar, and Favorita. Not a bad start! We also have a few more varieties in the hoop house–our second attempt at PVF West for really early tomatoes. If all goes well, we may have A FEW tomatoes as early as the fourth of July! Other exciting vegetables in the ground right now include broccoli, peas, beets, chard, lettuce, kale, fennel, onions, garlic, spinach, arugula, peppers, summer squash, cucumbers, and eggplant.

Tomato plants under Reemay

Once the plants are in the ground, we can’t just forget about them until they get big and juicy. Some of the more tender plants, like the tomatoes, summer squash, cukes, peppers, and eggplant, need a cover to keep out the sneaky frosty nights and keep in the warm. We’ve been trying to tuck those crops under a cover of fabric called Reemay. We place a series of support hoops along the length of the row, typically about 5 plants apart. Once in place, we begin at one end and work to the other end of the row with the Reemay. First we anchor the end of the cloth with dirt. Then a team works to pull the cloth tight over the hoops–along both the length and width of the row–and anchor it in place with more shovels full of dirt or bags filled with dirt, working one hoop at a time. When the team reaches the end of the row, the cloth is cut and the end is anchored with more dirt clods. We’ve also used this cloth in the past to keep the deer from making a snack of our crops, but our exciting new deer fence seems to be doing the trick.

Mulching tomatoes with hay

Other crop tending tasks are mulching with hay and weeding. Mulching is a multi-purpose task. First and foremost, it keeps down the weeds. It also adds organic matter to the soil and keeps the fruit clean. And, though the greenhouse work has slowed a bit, keeping a good rotation of plants is integral to having a long, productive growing season and enough to sell.

And markets! All of PVF West’s markets are in full swing. Stop by the Saturday morning Leesburg or Arlington Courthouse markets or the White House Market on Thursday afternoon to say hello and sample the fruits of our labor!

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Spudland

April 11, 2010, 7:54 am / posted by Ellen / Link

We grow potatoes here somewhat reluctantly, as we don’t see it as a cash crop. We think that we are breaking even at best. So, the only reason to grow them is that they are such an important and tasty food and we want our CSA customers to have them as often as we can manage. It may seem strange that a food that can be found so incredibly cheaply at the store (20 cents/lb in bulk) is still a money loser for us when spuds retail for $2/lb at market. I will attempt to show you what it takes to grow potatoes on a small ecoganic farm. Maybe that will help it make more sense. Basically, it’s a case of economies of scale involving us not owning very large, very expensive machinery that replaces hand labor. So, here’s what growing spuds by hand looks like.

On Monday we cut up 700 pounds of “seed” potatoes (they are grown to be used for seed not food). They look just like regular potatoes, but they have been certified to be clean of any diseases.

We are attempting to get one “eye” (growth point) per piece of spud. We have been greening up these potatoes in the greenhouse so that the eyes are short and green - instead of long leggy and white like they get sitting in your cupboard. That way the eye will stay put through the handling of the piece and start growing sooner in the field. The new plant will grow using the energy stored in the potato flesh itself, just like a seed.

Now, out in the field, I have tilled the soil and run a cultivator through that makes a little furrow where we want to plant. There are two furrows per bed (the ground that fits between the tractor tires). We drive a planter across the field and place by hand the potato pieces into the furrow.

Okay, now we have to cover the spuds with soil so they can grow roots and extend that shoot. For this I will put on the hiller. Now the trick is to drive straight and hope the hill happens right over the furrow! It works most of the time, but not always…

Here’s the whole patch waiting to be hilled

Here’s the hiller at work

It was getting dark as I finished, so that’s all the pictures I have! Total time spent on spudland so far =

obtaining seed = 1 hour

cutting seed = 10 hours

field prep = 1.5 hours

planting = 7 hours x 3 people = 21 hours

hilling = 2 hours (including set up)

TOTAL = 35.5 hours and various equipment and diesel to plant 700 lbs of seed into about one half acre of ground

I’ll keep you posted on how this turns out. There are at least two more hillings to go, and maybe one or two biological (spinosad) sprays to put on, some irrigating maybe, and then DIGGING. In other words, we’ve just begun to invest in this crop!

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18 tons of Rock Phos

March 28, 2010, 2:11 pm / posted by Ellen / Link

I joked with Timothy, who drove by this morning, that in my “old” age, I’ve decided to use some actual fertilizer on the farm. He remarked that as far as mid-life crises go, this sounded like a pretty tame one.

As I journey toward comfortability with my new role as Soil Consultant, I must learn first hand about some basic fertilizer products. The most interesting load to arrive so far was today’s semi-load of Tennessee Brown Rock Phosphate. Upon studying my latest soil tests, it appears that this land could use more Phosphorus. The most sustainable/organic way to get good clean natural phosphorus is to use a mined rock that is high in P. It made sense to order a whole semi load to get the price down, and so I have enough to sell to my friend, customers and neighbors. A semi load is 22 tons. The rock phos is in one ton totes or bags that are on pallets. The truck stopped in Pamplin yesterday to drop 4 tons off at Ali and Lisa’s farm. The rest came here at 8 this Sunday morning.

I was stressing about the load as my device to move the pallets was untested. My trusted mate the skid loader does not have the capacity to handle more that 1750lbs at a time, so these ton totes were out of the question. So, with the help of my friendly neighborhood IH dealer, Browning Equipment, we obtained some pallet forks for my underemployed Kubota M6950. This tractor has not made itself loved on the farm so far: kinda big and clunky, it hasn’t had many jobs. So, we put the loader assembly back on to it, and added the forks.

With much coaching from the wonderfully friendly truck driver from NH, the good old M6950 JUST BARELY lifted those totes off the flat bed. They hydraulics seems just a bit weak, but it worked. I put a flail mower on the back of the tractor to add some more counter weight. (The fluid filled rear tires act as excellent counter weight as well.) My handy husband Richard helped guide me to pick up each pallet - as I couldn’t see the actual fork tips!

All is well, the load is tarped and covered against rain. Now, to get that rock dust into the new compost piles….not sure how that will work yet. I’ll keep you posted.

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Registration is now open!

February 15, 2010, 12:01 am / posted by Ryan / Link

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More and more winter

February 10, 2010, 1:02 pm / posted by Hana / Link

Our major concern with all this snow is the possibility that our metal-framed, plastic-covered greenhouses will collapse under the weight. We worry about this because our primary greenhouse did get destroyed in 2003 with that winter’s major snowstorm. This year, just like all the other farmers in the area, we put in the effort, throughout the storm, to make sure not too much snow accumulated. Of course, we don’t know how much is too much, but we knew the more often we did it, the easier it would be. But still, it took quite a bit of effort, and the generous help of our neighbors, to keep them clear.

Blueberry Hill volunteers help clear the snow off the top of one of the hoop houses.

It takes a lot of sliding, pulling and flapping to move the hose over the ribs on top of the plastic.

More volunteers help coax the snow off the very top.

We used bamboo poles with tennis balls attached to the ends, but still, occasionally we poked some holes. Much easier to patch small holes in the springtime than to rebuild the whole hoop house…

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CSA opening to Returning Members on Feb 1, 2010

January 26, 2010, 11:56 am / posted by Hana / Link

All the CSA members from 2009 will receive an e-mail on Monday, February 1, giving the link to the registration page for 2010. If you are a returning customer and you do not hear from us then, please write to us and we’ll send a message to your correct address. Returning customers will have until Feb 10 to sign up.

If you subscribe to PVF-West, please read all the new information on this website. There are changes — we have one share size and one season length now. Much simpler. PVF-East continues to maintain its complicated structure, with three share sizes and two seasons. Read all about it.

We have been resting and getting energized for the next season, going to conferences, reading seed catalogs, reading the regular newspaper. We don’t mind cold, wet weather in January one bit, since it keeps us inside and guilt-free. We are looking forward to spring, but we are in no particular hurry.

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Winter Whites

January 12, 2010, 2:11 pm / posted by Ellen / Link

While all appears to be asleep at PVF, the farmers are inside, cozily planning the 2010 season. Most of the seeds have been ordered and are arriving daily. We are making changes to the CSA: tinkering with share sizes, delivery sites, and getting ready for the February onslaught of registering new customers. We cherish this time of the year, enjoying the relative ease of these short days. We are trying to keep in shape, going to the gym, practicing yoga, splitting wood, so that when April comes we will be ready to bend over and plant the first babies in the ground.

Here’s a photo from that tremendous snow of late December. We went out over and over to keep moving the snow off the hoophouse so it wouldn’t collapse. That puts a whole new meaning to snowstorm. We also turned the heater on in the big greenhouse for the same reason. All structures survived the weather. I always think that these super cold nights are freezing our insect enemies in the ground. That’s another way to enjoy the winter, especially when I can stay inside and watch.

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Sweet Potatoes

October 6, 2009, 4:40 am / posted by Ellen / Link

Before frost comes each autumn, we spend hours and hours digging sweet potatoes. This crop is dear to us, one that not so many growers grow, and that is so tasty and nutritious. We start by transplanting “slips” into a freshly tilled and bedded field. Sweet potatoes are one of the few crops we grow on raised beds. That gives the roots plenty of soft ground to form in, and makes it much easier to harvest. After the long warm ummer, the vigorous vines have completely covered the field. In order to see what we’re doing at harvest time, I bring in the bushhog and mow the tops of the plants.

You can see the trickle irrigation tape running down the center of the bed. Now that we can see what is what, it’s time to bring in the beloved Bartschi root digger. The driver keeps the machine moving very slowly straddling the bed, while two people “birth” the roots behind.

Stephen and Zeke are catching the roots as they become unearthed, making sure they don’t get reburied by soil, or fall into the abyss that the root lifting blade creates. Now the rest of the crew can come in and calmly and quietly collect the sweet potatoes, separating them from the vine.

Unlike sweet potatoes from the store, these roots come in every possible shape and size. Some of the biggest are over 4 pounds! As long as it’s edible, we consider even strange ones food too. So, from about 3000 plants, we harvested 235 green pony baskets of potatoes. That’s about 6000 pounds of goodness.

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Newsletter update

September 27, 2009, 9:42 pm / posted by Ryan / Link

A long overdue update to the newsletters section has been made (we’re all caught up now).

How’s everyone enjoying their veggies this year?

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Ladies on Vakay

June 22, 2009, 12:26 pm / posted by Ellen / Link

This is what a happy hen looks like. We keep only hens, no roosters, so we call them the Ladies. I’ve learned from my hip young workers that the slang for vacation is Vakay. Thus the topic of my post. The ladies, all 183 of them, have been out in the field all spring, where the variety of greenery was a bit slim. So, last week we brought them over the a very diverse and interesting area for a little vacation. This spot has weeds of every ilk, wood chips, hay bales and piles of leaves for the ladies to play in. They are so busy all day scratching and pecking that they can barely look up when we drive by. They live in this deluxe hen house at night safe from Mr. Fox. They lay eggs in the morning in the nest boxes, then party the rest of the daylight hours outside.

The fencing is just to keep them from eating crops or getting out on the road. They have lots of room to roam and express themselves. For me this is the most important part of being a chicken keeper - keeping them happy. The ladies also have access to real DIRT for giving themselves dust baths. This dust is important for keeping parasites and lice off their skin and feathers. Yet another reason to support free range chicken products! Enjoy.

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What’s with this Rain?

June 11, 2009, 7:53 am / posted by Ellen / Link

Goodness people, I swear I’ve never seen a rainy spring extend this far into June. I know we usually complain about drought, as we may still yet, but we farmers reserve the right to complain about weather any time we feel like it. So now I will let you know what this weather means to us, and thus to you eaters! It’s not so much the actual quantity of water that’s the problem (and we are much drier here in Purcellville than Hana is in Vienna), it that it doesn’t dry up between rains. As keepers of indoor plants, you should have learned by now that plants like to dry out between waterings. They don’t want to wilt. But waterlogged soil invites fungus and makes it hard for the roots to breathe. As major tillers of soil, we need it to become dry enough to “work” so we can continue to plant new plants and seed new patches. This spring has been especially challenging in that regard.

We have a fairly loose plan of where different crops will go as the season begins. Then, the actual on-the-ground factors come into play. “Where is it dry enough to plant?” becomes the key question. Remember that any given field needs to go through a series of processes to go from covered with plants (winter cover crop of rye) to ready to plant a crop. Each of these steps requires dryish soil conditions.

Luckily, this season I have such excellent teammates that we have managed pretty well to continue to plant and sow in the given 10 minutes of perfect soil moisture - quick quick before the next rain comes. It also requires all machines work properly during that exact window of opportunity. So far, no major set backs, just things being on the late side.

Last Friday we enjoyed a full 5 hour pre-market harvest in the pouring rain. This is when you really find out how effective that rain gear actually is. As I told my folks, I’m pretty chipper with mudboots, a felt hat with a brim and rain pants. I get grumpy when the moisture reaches my core (chest and underarms) and then it’s pretty lousy out there. In order to not get stuck in the mud, we picked the load into a trailer (no need to protect from the hot sun). What an beautiful load.

And then after we pick, we need to wash all these greens and pack them up for market. That was two people for 2+ hours! The rest of us picked peas in the mud. My core got wet just in time to call it a day. We were a gorgeous bunch of farmers.

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Farmland Solstice Supper - June 20, 2009

June 10, 2009, 11:29 am / posted by Ryan / Link

Farmland Solstice Supper

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Spring is Long

June 2, 2009, 5:16 am / posted by Ellen / Link

I’ve been long away from this site, fighting my local government, but things are somewhat calmer now and the farm is hopping.

One of the hardest concepts for consumers is the idea of patience. We have now been trained that our every whim can be satisfied within seconds (just ask wikipedia the definition…) or with in minutes (just drive to the store and get it) or within hours (order on-line, get it next day). But in farming you just have to wait. Seeds take as long as they please to germinate, plants take weeks to become mature enough to eat or at least to become grown-up enough to start mating (making flowers and then fruits!).

Let’s just track the lettuce that will be your dinner this week. The seeds were started in the greenhouse in early March. They become cute little plants in the greenhouse. They sat outside for a week, got ready for the “real” world of full sun, heat and cold. We transplanted them into the field on April 27.

Today, 5 weeks later they are big enough to become dinner. Lettuce is pretty much one of the fastest crops: only 8 weeks from start to finish. Other crops like tomatoes and eggplant are at least 4-5 MONTHS from seed to first fruit. And then our fall favorite, celeriac, is the grand champ of patience, 6+ months of growing time.

So, please understand, it takes time to grow food! We do employ a few tricks of the trade, but they can only buy you days, not weeks or months.

Now, try to imagine planting fruit trees: 3+ years from planting to the very first harvest! Now, that’s a whole other take on patience. Thanks for your anxious questions about when something is ready. We’re having a nice long spring trying to make your wait as short as possible.

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Political Wheels Turning?

May 10, 2009, 6:41 am / posted by Ellen / Link

Thank you concerned and dedicated customers for your show of support on Monday. The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors has heard from farmers and eaters alike that putting a 4000 student eduplex right next to some of the most successful farms in the county is a BAD IDEA. But, School Board reps are still defending the plan.

The deal is not dead yet.

For those of you late to the story please use email to each Board of Supervisors member and School Board member to register your upset. For those of you that are up to date, please send them another one. I am told by those who know, that these letters are making ALL the difference.

Here is our best local paper coming out in strong support of our cause.

Please visit Wheatlandalliance.org for pertinent information, addresses etc.

Thank you for helping us to continue to thrive.

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Board of Supervisors Meeting archive

May 5, 2009, 11:00 am / posted by Ryan / Link

Last night’s demonstration/public comment at the Board of Supervisors meeting in Leesburg saw a wonderful turnout. 60+ people spoke in opposition to the contract, taking the meeting beyond 9pm.

The video of the meeting can be streamed online or downloaded (large WMV). The audio of the meeting can be downloaded.

Thanks to everyone that showed up for support and to everyone that’s taken the time to contact the board.

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Help us save the Loudoun Valley

May 2, 2009, 7:06 pm / posted by Ryan / Link

Help us save the Loudoun Valley, the agricultural jewel of Northern Virginia Home to Potomac Vegetable Farms, Wheatland Vegetable Farms, Tree and Leaf Farm, Moutoux Orchard, Greenstone Fields Farm, Corcoran Vineyards.

Demonstration on Monday May 4th, 2009 6:00pm
Loudoun County Government Center: 1 Harrison Street, S.E., Leesburg, VA 20177-7000

We will present our 900 petitions, have a press conference, and have as many people as possible with signs standing in the courtyard and in the lobby of the building. This is to get us fired up for the 6:30 public comment period. We need to have so many people speak to the supervisors that they have to sit there until midnight hearing our concerns. Our goal is to get the Board of Supervisors so upset and embarrassed by this debacle that they pass some kind of resolution or motion that states a school cannot be built on these properties. That will make the sales contract Null and Void. We have two legal opinions that agree with this as our best avenue to stop these schools.

If you can’t join us, please make some phone calls and get BODIES on the site. We have three days to get this together. It’s now or never.

Deluge the Board of Supervisors with emails (bos@loudoun.gov) and calls (comment line 703-777-0115) demanding this land purchase be stopped by any means!

Thanks and see you there!

http://wheatlandalliance.org/

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New Fence

April 11, 2009, 7:11 am / posted by Ellen / Link

In two days this week, an energetic crew of 5 men from Pennsylvania put up 3000 feet of deer fence. We have been taking down the less than ideal black plastic net fence to prepare for their arrival. They arrived in two trucks, one monster pick up and a semi carrying three loaders/tractors and all the supplies. The were here at 8AM sharp after driving for almost 2 hours.

Semi w/fence posts

They had a wonderful attachment to a skid loader called a post driver, which bashed in the 12′ post almost 3 feet in the ground, bang bang bang.

Post driver

And then another loader with the fence stretcher would unroll the 8 foot woven wire fence. Once the grounds men held it up to the posts, it would pull the wire very taught and they would nail the fence to the posts.

fence stretcher

I was impressed with the steady pace and speed at which this all took place. Wonderful equipment and highly skilled workers are a joy to watch. It’s nice to know that this big chunk of change ($16,000) was well spent. Now we’ll see how the deer adapt to this new line of defense. Remember that this is replacing only 1/3 of our fence, in the most “challenged” areas. We have to grow some more veggies, make some more money and invite this team of fencers back again next spring.

woven wire nailed into place

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One Upmanship with the Deer

March 31, 2009, 7:30 pm / posted by Ellen / Link

We are deep in a long standing battle with our neighbors the deer. Due to many factors mostly surrounding suburbanization the deer population has exploded, especially in Loudoun County. I liken the battle to the nuclear arms race. My first volley came in 1992 when I planted one crop on this 180 acres, 1000 tomato plants. I harvested exactly ZERO fruit that season. Can you imagine? The plants were big and healthy and I thought all was well until I ventured into the patch to see when the first ripe one would arrive. I found no tomato fruit at all, and lots of deer poop. Thus the battle began.

We started with one strand of electrified wire around that one acre patch. We moved to two strands, then two whole fences 3 feet apart. Then in 1996 we went big time and put up a “permanent” seven strand electric fence around the whole 50 production acres. It was a huge project, costing a fair amount of money and many people hours. That worked for a few years. Then the second fence outside the first. Then 3-4 years ago 7 foot plastic mesh, attached to the ground with 12″ ground staple so they couldn’t get under the fence. And now, this winter I could see that the deer have started to jump over. So, next week, a company from PA will come down and spend 3-4 days installing an 8 foot woven wire fence. It costs $5 per foot and my fence is more than 8000 feet around, so I am only affording to replace 2900 feet at the most high pressure areas = where I can tell they are jumping over. I anticipate doing this 2 more years until the whole fence is replaced. That’s right, $40,000 invested in keeping Bambi out. As you might imagine I enjoy venison quite a bit, mostly out of poetic justice.

So we are quickly trying to dismantle the existing fence so the new one can get installed next week. That means taking down 20,000 feet of wire, 2900 feet of plastic mesh and many half-rotted fence posts. It’s a big job. Here are two pictures of our worst section in terms of the complex of weedy perennials that have taken hold in the fence line.

I got so frustrated with separating the mesh from the pokey weeds that I brought out the skid loader and just smashed it down and ripped it out of the ground. It was very satisfying. But we still had to roll up the good parts of the mesh and fold up the ruined pieces to throw away.

I’ll show you the beautiful new fence when it gets here.

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Spotting

March 17, 2009, 2:24 pm / posted by Ellen / Link

Spotting is the word we use to describe the act of taking a tiny seedling that’s in tight quarters and moving it into a more spacious environment. Today I spotted the cabbage you’ve been watching develop. I took hunks of seedlings out of the seedling flat and separated them into individual plants and put them into a cell tray. This tray has 72 separate cells. The cell tray is filled with a mixture of “soilless media” (peat, bark, perlite) and my fantastic compost. I make a little depression with my left index finger and then set the tiny seedling into that hole and push soil on top. Now add water and they will adjust to the new situation and start growing again.

Some plants handle this kind of rough activity better than others. Cabbage is in the Brassicaceae family and they are pretty good at being transplanted. Plants in the Cucurbitaceae family are less happy about jostling so we seed them directly into the cell trays, or even seed them directly into the field.

You can see that the greenhouse fills up quickly at this rate. One seedling flat yielded 6 trays of 72 plants. We’ve also been working with many fancy herb plants, moving them for 85 cell trays to 50 cell trays. These are herbs that come from cuttings: rosemary, lemon verbena, tarragon, and lavender. So now the greenhouse looks like this:

We also seeded dill and cilantro for the first time. We put a pinch of seeds into each of the 84 cells, 7 trays of each variety. They will be ready for the field in 5 weeks or so. Tomorrow we head out into the sunny weather (at least that’s what “they” are promising) to prune our neighbors blueberry patch. This earns us many hours of picking blueberries in July for free!

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