Enter for a chance to improve your stock of canning supplies. This month's giveaway will give one lucky winner high quality canning supplies from Gardener's Supply Company. Preserve your harvest so you can enjoy the fruits of your labor all year long! HOW TO ENTER: It’s easy - just click “Log In” below if you have a Facebook account (if...
Late summer has come upon us here in the Southeastern United States. Occasionally, a cool breeze sweeps through, and the mornings can be downright pleasant. With late summer comes time to plan and start planting for fall gardens. For me, planning for fall gardens also means it’s time to start another school year. This year will be my fourth in...
In the Northeast, August marks the traditional beginning of harvest season. While season extension has many growers harvesting year-round or close to it, August through September can still claim the heaviest, and most diverse, yields of the year. With tomatoes weighing down the vine, zucchini overflowing in the fields, and cabbage sizing up in time for kraut-making, we’re now in...
If you read last month’s blog post about why we choose to breed our own organic varieties, then you may be nipping at the bud to find out what exactly our Breeding and Research team has been working so diligently on refining these past few weeks. Here’s a peek at some of the successful projects High Mowing’s breeding program has...
Each September morning is a little darker, a little cooler, and a little dewier as the earth wraps its way towards another autumn. Although you may be tired, ragged and bleary-eyed from a hot, dry season, autumn is the ideal time to turn your remaining energy towards next year's soil fertility plan. The first step towards a soil fertility plan...
“The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming . . . to him the soil is a divine drug. What miraculous seed has he swallowed that the unending sentence of his love flows out of his mouth like a vine clinging in the sunlight, and like water descending in the dark?” –Wendell Berry, poet & farmer-philosopher What...
Enter for a chance to win supplies for a cool weather garden. This month’s giveaway will give one lucky winner our carefully curated Winter Garden seed collection and the practical Row Shelter Accelerator from Gardener’s Supply Company. Extend your harvest season with these great prizes! HOW TO ENTER: It’s easy - just click “Log In” below if you have...
Photo courtesy of Shawn Linehan. As agriculture has advanced over the centuries, the demands of the farmer have likewise evolved to require very specific behaviors from the plant varieties that are grown commercially. Many of these demands relate to plant health and growth: overall vigor, specific disease resistances, beneficial plant structure, and high yields are common traits that farmers seek...
Cristina Cosentino works as Field Operations Specialist at the H.O.G. Farm, a diversified organic vegetable farm in Brookhaven, NY. I no longer think of time as linear from date to date, but rather from vegetable to vegetable. I never thought that the mental organization of my personal life would be so intimately intertwined with memories of harvesting strawberries or...
It’s not unusual to find Taylor Maida, High Mowing’s Trials Lead, at her desk in the High Mowing warehouse, recording, analyzing and sharing data about specific vegetable varieties. But more often than not, she and her Trials team of Monique Gerbex and Katie Weller are out in one of the greenhouses or the Trials fields carefully tending to and recording...
