What’s New Here?

Recent additions to this website.

This page tries to help folks who visit this website occasionally and wonder what has been added since their last visit. We will be recording here significant changes with the most recent changes at the top of the list. Because of the seasonal nature of vegetable farming, most of the changes on this website occur from November through April when we are less busy operating the farm and going to market.

4-Feb-2021

• Added several seedlings pages to our online store, each one offering several varieties of related seedlings.
• Added explanatory pages under the TECHNIQUES menu: Planting Perennials, Planting Warm Weather Seedlings, Planting Cold Weather seedlings, Planting Hot Peppers, Growing Houseplants, and Succession Planting.
• Updated the Tomato Seedlings page to reflect our 2021 offerings.
• Added the option to buy a CSA Share card from our online store.

November 2020

• Figured out how to embed our online store (the Square Store) into our website. Order and pay online, pick up at one of our farmers’ markets or at the farm.

April 2020

• Added pre-order links for seedlings and veggies to the home page.
• Added How are the meeting seats arranged? article to the On Farmers’ Markets section.

March 2018

• Converted the website from SSI to WordPress.
• Added a page On Onions explaining how we grow onions from seed to harvest.
• Added a series of pages On Farmers’ Markets written over the past 20 years.

2-Oct-16

• Added a page about our Paste Tomatoes, describing our varieties and the advantages of using paste tomatoes. Used an embedded Google doc for the content.

24-Mar-14

• Added a page titled Your Most Expensive Crop, talking about strategies for weed control.

23-Dec-13

• Added a page about Planting Bulbils By Cluster, a new bulbil planting method we are trying out. Includes photo of the old and new planting methods.

1-Dec-13

• Added a page about our new Sugarhouse, a photo essay describing how over the past fifteen years we moved from a 12’x12′ shack to our still under construction 22’x30′ sugarhouse. Includes photos of the sugarhouse being built in late November.
• Added a link on the home page to a page about us at Mary Doyle’s Unique Maine Farms website.

2-Dec-12

• Added a page about The Evolution of the Farm Table, a photo essay of how we developed the strong inexpensive tables we use here at the farm, including instructions of how to build your own.

21-Apr-12

• On the Classes and Workshops page, added a link to the outline of my talk to the Pittsfield Garden Forum. Also added some pics from that talk.

30-Dec-11

• On our home page, added links to other websites where we list our farm and to various videos that we appear in.

8-Dec-11

• Added a page about Prepping Veggies for market, covering details from selecting the right harvest time and tools to what containers to use at market.
• Added a page listing outlines of the various classes we’ve given for groups on gardening subjects.

27-Dec-10

• Added Barn Two information to the Our Outbuildings page.
• Made some additions to the Crop Rotations page explaining that we sometimes rotate whole rotation groups to different fields.
• Added a link to our Newsletter Archive.
• Added a page about our On Farm Building Techniques using recycled and locally havested materials. This is an ongoing project and will be completed soon.

9-Apr-10

• Added three spring photos of emerging garlic to the Planting Garlic page.
• Made some additions to the Crop Rotations page explaining what veggies are in what rotation groups.

29-Jan-10

• Created a MailChimp account for the farm and added a sign-up form for our
  newsletter to the menu bar. Sent out our first newsletter.
• Added an Intern and Apprentice Application Form to the Working Here page, since someone wrote us and asked for one.

31-Dec-09

• Changed the menu to a simpler, but longer, format. Added an “UP” arrow to the bottom of each page next to the page version. Made the
  Snakeroot logo above the menu be the “top” of each page.
• Updated the Apprentices Page after Jack & Coco left.
• Added a Just Pretty Page with some pretty pics taken here at the farm.
• Added our new brochures in PDF format for Celery & Celeriac, Sunchokes, and New England Long Pie Pumpkin.
• Added pics to the Dealing with Low Pressure Water page.
• Made an Outbuildings page for the Outdoor Potting Shed, Barn, Vegetable Washing Area and Shelf Greenhouse.
• Updated our History Page to date.

4-Nov-09

• Added a page about Growing Garlic Rounds from Bulbils, including an experiment we did with timing our plantings in 2008 to see if we could vary the number of tiny bulbs that were produced.
• Added a page about how we plant and harvest our Garlic.

24-May-09

• Added completed projects to the Our History page for Winter & Spring, 2009.
• Added links to photos on the Our History page.

7-Jan-09

• Added a page about Working Here describing working here for hourly wage, as a summer intern or as an apprentice.

27-Nov-08

• Updated the Fresh Herbs page with more photos and captions.
• Added a page about how we combat witchgrass withmulches.
• Rearranged the menu items formerly under “Information and Education” into two
  new categories: “Food & Farming info” and “Opinions & Ideas”. Also
  arranged most of the sub-topics sort of alphabetically.

17-Dec-08

• Created the Picking Up and Storing Floating Row Covers page with two photos, with more photos coming next summer.

22-Nov-08

• Updated the Seed Saving page with more photos and captions.

16-Nov-08

• Redesigned the home page, putting “where we buy” and “where we sell” on there own pages so the home page will load faster.
• Converted entire website from frames to shtml, so that the actual name of every page will appear in the address field of the browser.
• Added a story of our cooler page, explaining how we built and how we use our cooler.

5-Mar-08

• Added a downloadable CSA brochure in pdf format to the CSA page.

16-Feb-08

• Updated the Seeds page and added a printable order form.
• Added a separate Seeds page link to the menu. Previously it was just under Garlic and Tomatoes, but now it has its own
  link also.
• Added an Open Source page urging viewers to use Firefox, Thunderbird and
  Open Office.
• Added GPS coordinates to the home page and the Directions page.
• Uploaded several image files that were needed for the new home page image links.

23-Jan-08

• Replaced the long list of links on the left with a new menu from OpenCube which holds many more links than previously. This later turned out not to work so well.
• Added logos to the home page for the all farmers’ markets we
  attend, and added who from the farm attends each market.
• Added logos of our suppliers and updated the suppliers list.

26 November 2007

• Added a Drip Irrigation page, a photo essay about our drip irrigation systems
  using both high pressure well water and low pressure gravity fed water.

22 November 2007

• Added apple pictures to the Fresh Fruit page
• Updated and added photos to the Homegrown Seeds page.
• Fixed minor problems and made minor updates to several other pages.

5 October 2007

• Added some of our 2007 farm workers to the farm workers page.

30 March 2007

• Added a page dedicated to Our Apprentices, with descriptions in their own words.
• Added Newport Farmers’ Market on the home page to the list of markets we attend.

29 March 2007

• Added this What’s New Here? page so folks can quickly focus on items that have been recently added.

November 2007

• Added separate pages with pictures for our Vegetables, Herbs, and Perennials. We still have to take more photos of some of these items, so not all pictures
  appear yet.
• Added some photos from 2006 of Our Farm Workers, but we didn’t get everyone’s photo who worked here. Maybe next year we’ll do
  better.