Farm Life in Maine and New Hampshire
You wander out to the garden to pick some fresh tomatoes. You find small black droppings on the leaves of your tomato plant. The leaves are gone, but the stem remains. Looks like you probably have tomato worms. Tomato worms feast on the leaves of your tomato plants, which will lead to the plant dying. The tomato hornworm (Manduca quinquemaculata) is a large caterpillar that … [Read more...]
Farming was deep in my roots on both sides of my family. “It'll be easyâ€, I thought. “You just plant some seeds, and watch them grow.†Was I in for a big surprise. No one ever told me about bugs, and pests, and plant diseases. No one ever told me about the weeds, and how weeding will cause you to go gray before your time. Oh, and the animals. Other than a dog, I had … [Read more...]
 Alien Radishes Cloverleaf Farm Mortgage Lifter Boxing Tomato Clovereaf Farm  What Planet Did These Vegetables Come From? We grow organic heirloom varieties of vegetables. Heirlooms are the vegetables our ancestors grew, before people decided to hybridize them. They are much more delicious, and more nutritious, and as you can see, grow … [Read more...]
On a hot summer day in July, I often wonder why I do this thing called farming. I know many of forefathers, including my own, had to farm for their meals. We, of course, can just go to the grocery store. On those hot summer days when I am out in the gardens sweating out the last gallon of water I drank, I sometimes think of just giving it up. I think, why would anyone do … [Read more...]
Growing Organic Heirloom Vegetables  Growing organic is not a new concept. Farmers have been doing it for centuries. Before WWII, there were no such things as chemical fertilizers, or insecticides. After WWII, there was a surplus of chemicals that they had used during the war, and needed a way to use them. Someone had the bright idea of using them as insecticides. Remember, … [Read more...]
We here at Cloverleaf Farm would rather lose a crop than use chemical fertlizers, or chemical insecticides. While "garden experts", such as Paul Parent Garden Club, are suggesting the use of RoundUp, we prefer to grow the way our ancestors did...organically. Pure and delicious! Before WWII, the chemicals of today were non existent. The only reason we have chemical insecticides, … [Read more...]
After listening to the Paul Parent Garden Club on Sunday, June 21, I decided to boycott it. I have that right. I am after all, guaranteed free speech by the U.S. Constitution. … [Read more...]
