The Patch Post

Prairie stories, growing tips, and reflections from our Kansas garden. Follow the seasons with Autumn Prairie Pumpkins.

The Longest Day: A Summer Solstice Garden Note from Kansas

The light comes early now. By half past five the patch is already awake, the dew still sitting heavy on the broad leaves, and my...

The bees were already working when I came out with my coffee this morning, before the dew had even decided to lift. There is a...

The coffee was still too hot to drink when I noticed the first squash blossom had opened overnight, a small gold trumpet pointed straight at...

You can see it from the gravel road before you hear it. A line of dust along the southern horizon, gold below and blue above,...

This week something happened that we are still grinning about. The Newton Kansan came out to the micro-farm, walked the beds with us, and put...

The coffee was already warm when I stepped outside. It was not yet five, and the sky over the patch still held its dark, the...

The coffee was still too hot to drink when I noticed the first bee of the morning working the squash blossoms along the east row....

The light comes up over the patch a little earlier every morning now, and it lingers a little longer every night. By the time I...

The first one rose out of the bean rows a little after nine, while the sky still held a thin band of orange in the...

What it means that we are a human-first company: real hands, real soil, and seeds packed by the people who grow them in Newton, Kansas.

The first of June came in soft this year. I was out at the edge of the patch before six, coffee going cold in my...

The strawberries showed up at the farm stand on Tuesday. A flat of them, deep red all the way through, the kind that smell like...

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