At 11:30 yesterday morning, we got a call from Matt Hehl. He was at Eastmanville Farm with his tractor and our bag of seed. The long-awaited day had finally arrived. Sweet corn doesn’t do well in waterlogged soil, and for … Continue reading
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What’s not to like about a little rain?
For the past few weeks, we’ve been watching the skies. If you live anywhere in the 5,500 square-mile Grand River watershed, you probably have been too. This spring’s relentless rainfall brought the Grand to record levels, flooding homes and businesses … Continue reading
Setting our roots in the Eastmanville soil
Picture 60,000 seedlings breaching the top soil on a farm in Ottawa County. Then imagine those seedlings growing into six-foot-tall stalks ripe with ears of sweet corn, each one destined for the plate of someone struggling with hunger. As you … Continue reading