Category: Mac Stone

The Potential is Palatable

Slipping into the greenhouse these days, you will be rewarded with a quilt of colors, textures and aromas. Let’s look at what’s in store for the start of another growing season.

The New Way to CSA: A Look Back

Nowadays, we tuck shareholder-customized shares—packing lists generated for us by computer—into cabbage boxes and neatly stack them in air-conditioned delivery vans. We offer our thanks to the early adopters of Elmwood Stock Farm’s CSA Farm Share subscription model for sticking with us while we adapted to better systems for everybody.

The Soil & the Stars & the Spring Equinox

We are looking forward to the spring equinox on Saturday, when the earth tilts enough for the sun to be coming our way again. With it will come more chances to grow more vegetables, in due time.

Time for Lambing, Chicks & Turkey Eggs

February went out like a lion and March came in like a lamb—not the normal way of saying this analogy, and we don’t yet know how it is going to finish. While the weather timeline skews early this year, the saying is still most apropos. Lambs will indeed be coming soon, so we are all […]

Workplace CSA Programs

Bring the Farm to Your Workplace As a local foods eater, you ‘get it’—the amazing flavors of the food, the convenience of selecting the foods you prefer online, and the delivery to your home or selected location. And this wholesome, organic food is good for you. What’s not to get, right? Those of you who […]

Frozen: The Farm Edition

Last week’s ice storm enveloped every nook and cranny of everything outdoors on Elmwood Stock Farm, encasing us in a coating of ice. In terms of weather afflictions on the farm, wind doesn’t bother some things; rains bother some things but help others. Ice storms bother everything. We have persevered through previous ice events, indeed, […]

A Love Letter to the Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group

We are who others help us to be. Most of the farming we do was learned from somebody else. We just put our little spin of technology, wherewithal and personality to it.  More often than not, over the last 30 or so years, we would be traveling to or co-hosting the Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working […]

The Arrival of Meteorological Winter

A 2-inch snowfall on the last day of November kicked us into meteorological winter with a bang. Could be a harbinger of things to come or the biggest snow all year—no telling. I understand why the center of a roast or turkey keeps getting hotter after it comes out of the oven but not why […]

Sweet Sweet Potatoes

One of the more than 35 seasonal, organic vegetable options available at Elmwood Stock Farm right now is our sweet potatoes. To set the record straight, yams are not sweet potatoes. We do not grow yams in this country. They are a starchy subtropical tuber—a staple in parts of Africa and South America. Some yams […]

Your All-Organic Thanksgiving

We are honored, humbled and motivated to think of how many of you will be sharing some of the food we raise with your friends and family over the next few weeks. Our turkeys will grace the tables of family celebrations not just across the Bluegrass but across the country! At this year’s intimate gathering, […]