Our Archive: Watch as Farmers Grow

  • Second Year Focus Summary 2013

        Administration This year as my focus I endeavored to engage myself in North Slope Farm’s Administrative duties. In my personal life I only have to perform these sorts of tasks in a minimal way. The farm has a well established and fairly clear way of organizing itself. Because of this, standard procedures have…

  • Monthly Summary – November 2012

      Monthly Summary – November 2012 Posted By: TH Date: 11/5 Insert Picture General Observations: first notations in log for the month are of the after math of Hurricane Sandy at the end of October. Eventually clean up began. Comparatively the farm did ok through the storm. Mostly it brought wind that wreaked some havoc on…

  • Third Year Summary – 2013

    Third Year Summary -2013 It’s coming to the end of my three year training period at North Slope Farm. The years have passed in the blink of an eye but the amount of personal growth and knowledge I’ve experienced and gained will stick with me for a lifetime. Organic farming is a trade that is…

  • Monthly Summary – October 2012

    Monthly Summary – October 2012 Posted By: KG Date: 10/08/2012 General Observations: For the most part October 2012 continued the smooth sailing of September, our cold-weather fall crops yielded well and gave us a nice boost in marketable product that helped soften the effect of the tomatoes tapering off. Looking at the data and writing…

  • Cover Crop Plan and Task Lisk 2013

    click on scan below for more size options… Task List – MikeR needs to maximize the opportunity provided by excellent weather and timing for Planting, and three Trainees who will be charged with Preparing for, and establishing our Main Blocks of Winter Cover Crops – Today. The weather has been warm and dry, soil conditions…

  • Moving Creations, Inc – Support Girls in Philadelphia

    Fund Raiser for Moving Creations, Inc Saturday October 5, 2013 4 – 7 pm Pilates Alchemy 20 East Mount Airy Ave, 2nd Flr Philadelphia, Pa 19119   North Slope Farm has pledged to host a supporter of Moving Creations, Inc Certificate of Reservation By committing your Contribution To Moving Creations, Inc. 6757 Greene Street, Suite…

  • Monthly Summary – September 2012

    Monthly Summary – September 2012 Posted By: RR    Date:9/11/13 General Observations: Last year, the month of September gave us a bountiful harvest while operations were working smoothly! Equipment 63 hrs: KG and RR received various equipment training. The Billy Goat walk-behind mower arrived.  Fields were disk-harrowed for cover crop seeding.  Veg. B mid was chiseled and…

  • Bio-Intensive and Bio-Extensive at North Slope Farm

    Bio-Intensive and Bio-Extensive Practices at North Slope Farm MikeR 8/28/13 Click on Image below to view in detail… Attended by Farmers from: The Seed Farm Chickadee Creek Farm Hillside Farm Red Hill Farm Longview Farm Snipes Farm Lima Farms

  • Monthly Summary – August 2012

    Monthly Summary– August 2012 Logs reviewed and summary prepared by MR, August 10, 2013 General Observations:  Eight Thunder storm events noted and 21 irrigation applications.  Electrical fire near farmhouse after powerline broke along route 579.  It seemed like a lot of tractor activity with late season plowing and haying, and lots of planting as the…

  • Monthly Summary – July 2012

    Monthly Summary– July 2012 Logs reviewed and summary prepared by Owen Spath, July 9, 2013 General Observations:  The month began with a heat wave reaching an unbearable 102* by the 7th. The heat and dryness continued harshly throughout July killing our crop of fennel as well as some of our chickens in the coop. Midway…

  • Summit Downtown Inc votes to protect a Great Farmers Market – Thank You!

    Friday, June 28, 2013 Michael Rassweiler Summit Downtown Inc., Board of Trustees, voted on Wednesday, June 19th – ‘To maintain the Summit Downtown Farmers Market, at the Lot, located on the corner, of Deforest Ave and Maple Street.’ North Slope Farm represented the basic, stated opinions, of the Five Long Term Produce Farmers, at the…

  • Keep Summit Farmers Market in Deforest Ave Lot

    Summit Downtown Farmers Market Mike Rassweiler, NorthSlopeFarm.com June 22, 2013 Certified Organic Produce Vendor suffers from questionable actions of Summit Downtown, Inc.. Summit Downtown, Inc. has organized the Summit Downtown Farmers Market, located at the Deforest Avenue Parking lot, on the corner of Maple Street, for many years of excellent Community and Farmer Friendly access.…