Like a sweet potato and a butternut had a very good day. And the reason it tastes like this goes all the way back to how it was bred.

My name might be on a deed, but we only get so many years with a piece of land. Here's what I've been thinking about on my walks lately.

No talking, no music. Just me, a book and the woods behind our house. Here's every silent reading video in one place.

It was a hot one, I took a lot of breaks, and I still came out with a big pepper harvest. Plus the one picking habit that made our peppers bigger.

Yes, sometimes. Here's exactly when a Southern Maryland farm family sprays, what we use, how we keep it off the food, and why we'll always tell you.

A "normal" year (and what on Gods green earth is normal anymore?) in Southern Maryland brings somewhere around 40-46" of rain, and what the ground really needs is the steady, soak-in kind, not just the occasional downpour. If we're still seeing cracks in the ground from the drought dry out.... I fear we are still struggling (especially if you start to spiral thinking about our local water table and the other challenges it's facing).

Sweet corn is the one crop where "fresh" isn't a marketing word. Here are Johnny's rules for picking a good ear, the ones his dad taught him.

The groceries on my counter weren't going anywhere. They were canned goods and pantry staples. The peppers out in the garden were a different story. Tabascos ripen fast once they turn, and if you leave them too long they start drying out or going soft right on the plant. I'd put a whole season of work into those beds, and losing them now would have stung a lot more than a messy kitchen.

My boot got stuck on my foot on market morning, and I'm done with boots that quit after one season. Here's the saga, and I want your recommendations.

The true shift into the season: broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower in the ground, a lot of plug trays, and the paperwork nobody warns farmers about.

From the outside, late winter looks like down time on a farm. It's actually when the planning, the books and the seed orders happen.