Two Boots Farm

4226 Maple Grove Rd. Hampstead USA

(443) 507-8428

A family run farm and floral design studio in Hampstead, Maryland. We grow a wide variety of cut flowers and produce. We also have over 100 cultivated pawpaw fruit trees. We use ecologically sustainable practices so that future generations can continue to grow in healthy soil.

Finding our Rhythm

May 13, 2021  /  Elisa Lane

Greetings!

After last week’s hustle and bustle, we’ve been relieved to have a slightly more relaxed pace this week. It looks like we’ll see warmer days in the coming week, so we’re looking forward to getting all of our summer crops in the ground and watching more of our flowers bloom. Our harvests this week have been relatively small thanks to the cool days and nights, so we’re really looking forward to sunshine and warmth bringing us more flowers! Our overwintered annuals are just on the cusp of coming into full bloom, and we can’t wait to see them.

Elisa mowed down our rye and crimson clover cover crop this week. We’re resting this field for the season, as it’s been in heavy use for years now. In a few weeks, we’ll seed the field with a cover crop “cocktail” called Ray’s Crazy Summer Mix. It contains grasses, sunflowers, peas, and more. Utilizing a blend of seeds allows us to achieve lots of different things while cover cropping. The peas will fix nitrogen, flowers help bring beneficial insects to the farm, grasses fight erosion and suppress weeds, and all will create biomass that will break down into good organic matter for our soil! Since we’ve expanded our growing space over the past few years, we have more room to allow for long periods of cover cropping. We’re excited to be able to rest some of our land each season.

Elisa mowed down our rye and crimson clover cover crop this week. We’re resting this field for the season, as it’s been in heavy use for years now. In a few weeks, we’ll seed the field with a cover crop “cocktail” called Ray’s Crazy Summer Mix. It contains grasses, sunflowers, peas, and more. Utilizing a blend of seeds allows us to achieve lots of different things while cover cropping. The peas will fix nitrogen, flowers help bring beneficial insects to the farm, grasses fight erosion and suppress weeds, and all will create biomass that will break down into good organic matter for our soil! Since we’ve expanded our growing space over the past few years, we have more room to allow for long periods of cover cropping. We’re excited to be able to rest some of our land each season.

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Our fields are looking good and we have a positive outlook as we move forward with the season. The plants look healthy, pest issues have been minimal thus far, and our crew has done an amazing job of keeping up with the chaos that Spring brings.

Once we reach this point in the year, the weeks really start to fly by. We stay busy in our weekly rhythm, and in no time we’ll be putting the fields to sleep again.

As farmers, we know well that things can change rapidly and take us by surprise, but for the time being, things on the farm are feeling pretty swell. We’re easing into the pace of the season and finding our groove. All is well at Two Boots Farm.

We’re going to have one last on-farm seedling sale this weekend!

May 15th, 8:00- 11:00am, Two Boots Farm

And, as usual, we’ll be at the market at Johnny’s.

Sunday, May 9th, 8:00 am - 11:00 am: Johnny’s

We’ll be at market with arugula, radishes, spring mix, rhubarb, and hakurei turnips. We’ll also have lots of Spring flower, vegetable, and herb seedlings. And, as always, we’ll bring bouquets.

Take care,

Amelia and the rest of the Two Boots Farm crew

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