Doug’s Log – Week of October 17
Monday
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picked up mulch hay from Ryder Farm
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Leake & Watts
o
worked with Pei (3 hours) and Nancy (8 hours)
o
collected butternut squash
o
cut/harvested remaining black beans and threshed (“danced”)
o
planted garlic with Nancy and kids – 3 beds (1 with 2 rows, 2
with 1 row)
Tuesday
•
dropped off Butternut Squash at Food Bank
o
524 pounds total
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Muscoot Greenhouse
o
threshed Woodfield Black Beans
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Westchester Land Trust
o
sowed cover crop in Lower Side Field
oats, rye, clover and vetch
Wednesday
•
rainy day
•
Greens Harvest ( + greens for Food Bank Benefit display)
o
D.O.C.
Mustard, green wave – 33 bunches / 15 pounds
Fordhook Giant, swiss chard – 19 bunches / 8 pounds
o
Woodfield
Collard Greens – 14 bunches / 7 pounds
Kale, lacinato – 6 bunches / 2 pounds
Kale, red russian – 9 bunches / 4 pounds
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Muscoot Greenhouse
o
sorted Black Turtle and Tigers Eye bean
Thursday
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Westchester Land Trust
o
tilled rows in Upper Side Field (where Sweet Potatoes were) with
hoe
o
sowed cover crop
oats, rye, clover and vetch
o
tilled some in Back Greenhouse Field with hoe
Friday
•
picked up walk-behind tractor with tiller at Hilltop Hanover
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Leake & Watts
o
tilled large field
o
sowed cover crop
oats, rye, clover and vetch
covered seed with tree branch with leaves (tied to my waist with rope
and dragged through field)
o
applied Biodynamic Preparation (Horn Manure) – soil amendment
stirred preparation for 1 hour and spread with small broom (while
dragging tree branch to cover cover crop seed)
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Woodfield Cottage
o
dropped off tractor
Week of
October 10 -14
Monday,
October 10
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Leake & Watts
o
Butternut Squash harvest
– left in field to cure
o
Bloody Butcher
corn harvest – cut stalks and brought ears to greenhouse to dry
o
cut weeds with
machete
o
met with Diane
Lombardi about Sunday’s fod-nutrition event in White Plains – gave her some
black beans/plants, corn stalks and winter squash
Tuesday,
October 11
•
brought acorn squash from
Leake &Watts to the Food Bank warehouse
o
21 pounds total
•
Woodfield Cottage
o
worked with Mark
von Holstein and Kennon Kay
o
Dry bean harvest
dry beans in
not-so-good shape – a lot of Black, some Jacobs Cattle and Tigers Eye, but no
Limelight
cut plants with
scissors, made piles on tarp, threshed (“danced”)
o
cut weeds with
machete
Wednesday,
October 12
•
rainy day
•
Muscoot Farm greenhouse
o
threshed Woodfield
Cottage Black Turtle beans
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Woodfield Cottage
o
Popcorn harvest
o
cut stalks with
machete
•
Leake & Watts
o
Bloody Butcher
dent corn harvest
o
cut stalks with
machete
Thursday,
October 13
•
rainy day
•
Westchester Land Trust,
Bedford Hills
o
shaped beds with
hoe in lower side field
o
Sweet potato harvest
Friday,
October 14
•
rainy day
•
Westchester Land Trust,
Bedford Hills
o
shaped beds with
hoe in lower side field
•
Muscoot Farm greenhouse
o
husked dent corn
and popcorn
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Edenwald Center
o
checked on lettuce
and greens – they look OK
Saturday,
October 15
•
Westchester Land Trust,
Bedford Hills
o
raked out beds and
sowed cover crop (oats and clover) - 4 beds
Week of
October 3-7
Monday,
October 3
•
Department of Correction
(D.O.C.)
o
shaped beds (in
“cold frame” part) and transplanted kale - 1 row
o
Black Turtle bean
harvest
harvested/cut
Black Turtle beans (step 1 of black bean processing)
Black Turtle beans
– 7 pounds
Tuesday,
October 4
•
Department of Correction
(D.O.C.)
o
shaped beds (in
“cold frame” part) and transplanted kale and chard – 2 rows
o
threshed
(“danced”) dry bean plants (Step 2) and separated chaff from beans (Step 3)
Wednesday,
October 5
•
Leake & Watts,
Yonkers
o
Black Turtle bean
harvest
Picked up
harvested acorn squash and brought to the Food Bank warehouse
Acorn squash – 100
pounds
harvested/cut
Black Turtle beans
separated chaff
from beans
brought to beans
to Muscoot Farm greenhouse for overnight
Thursday,
October 6
•
Westchester Land Trust,
Bedford Hills
o
shaped beds in
lower side field
o
harvested sweet
potatoes from lower side field and upper side field
Friday,
October 7
•
Westchester Land Trust,
Bedford Hills
o
picked up cured
winter squash and delivered to Food Bank
Buttercup – 98
pounds
Butternut – 83
pounds
Long Island Cheese
squash – 251 pounds
Total harvest
delivered to the Food Bank – 432 pounds
•
Leake & Watts
o
Bent over dent corn
so it can dry
o
Picked up cured winter
squash and delivered to Food Bank
Acorn – 28 pounds
Buttercup – 233
pounds
Butternut – 179
pounds
Long Island Cheese – 194 pounds
Total harvest
delivered to the Food Bank – 634 pounds
Week of
September 26-30 and October 1, 2
Monday,
September 26
•
Leake & Watts,
Yonkers
o
Winter Squash
Harvest
cut and left to
cure acorn, buttercup, butternut and Long Island Cheese squashes
Acorn squash
harvest – 331 pounds
o
took soil samples
Tuesday,
September 27
•
Department of Correction
(D.O.C.)
o
transplanted
mustard and Swiss chard
mustard – 1 row
swiss chard – 1
row
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Edenwald Center,
Pleasantville
o
shaped beds and
transplanted lettuce and greens
lettuce – 4 rows
greens – 2 rows
Wednesday,
September 28
• cloudy
day
•
Edenwald Center,
Pleasantville
o
shaped beds and
applied compost to top of them (soil too wet to plant directly into) and
transplanted greens
greens – 2 rows
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Westchester Land Trust,
Bedford Hills
o
took toil samples
o
met SNAP folks
EBT (Food Stamps)
recipients can use EBT to buy seeds and seedlings (transplants)
I think the Food
Bank can incorporate this into our Food Growing Program…
Thursday,
September 29
•
rain today
•
Westchester Land Trust,
Bedford Hills
o
shaped beds in
Side Field
o
planted collards
and mustard greens in back field – 3 rows
Friday,
September 30
•
visited Queens County
Farm Museum with Leake & Watts crew
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Leake & Watts,
Yonkers
o
thinned turnips
o
planted collards
•
Department of Correction
(D.O.C.)
o
cultivated lettuce
and chard with collinear hoe
Saturday,
October 1
•
Westchester Land Trust,
Bedford Hills
o
thinned turnips
o
checked on
collards and mustard
critter got to
collards but not mustard (or turnips)
Sunday,
October 2
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Westchester Land Trust,
Bedford Hills
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thinned turnips
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