It’s corn pulling day! Let’s go save the baby corns!! This is an extremely important step in our sweetcorn production because if the little shoots are left under the plastic too long they will become sun bleached and whither and die! We are
What a beautiful Sunday! Today we celebrate the accomplishments of our week. We started planting ‘bare ground’ on Tuesday and then Friday night and Saturday we planted our ‘plastic’ ground. This process is slow! The tractor drives a whopping 2 MPH so
What are we up to now?!?! Each season the boys have big thoughts of how we can do things better. Before we implement those ideas across our farm, we use this small plot of ground to try things out. This area
Sweetcorn planting for 2021 has officially begun! While this is the first planting, it will not be the first to be harvested! Bare ground plantings typically take a couple of extra days to mature then those planted into the biodegradable plastic
Today is the day we prepare for since the end of harvest last fall! It’s plastic laying day!!! Somehow though, regardless of how much we prepare, there always seems to be a ‘flaw in the slaw’! This year is no different...however today, many
As the days get longer and begin to warm up, showing signs of the upcoming summer season, I thought I’d take a moment to show you what’s happening on our farm! Living on the river means we have an additional responsibility
It’s always an exciting day at Snyder’s Sweet Corn when our sweet corn seed arrives! This one box holds enough seed to plant our 80 acres of the golden treat! Looking very forward to serving you all again in...140 SLEEPS!
Only 10 SLEEPS to go!! The silks are drying down and the tassels are all but empty. The pollination process on our first planting has completed and now the plant will focus its energy into plumping up each kernel and developing
