Biological Thinking

This time of year, when you're harvesting tomatoes, you often notice part of the plant where the leaves seem to be missing and all that...

It's melon season.  We're searching through the melon fields to collect the ripe ones on the farm right now.  Testing for ripeness i...

See those dots?  They're the little bronze balls at the center of the squash leaf in the picture below.  These are newly-deposited eggs ...

It's been a wonderful year for produce.  Every crop seems to be generous this year, except the poor green beans that were infested with ...

The airspace on the farm is busy.  There is no air traffic control, but no one seems to collide.  I'm a giant lumbering along amongst t...

The strangest thing happens when you harvest tomatoes for hours: Tomato hands! That black stuff is called tomato tar, and it build...

Seasons are changing already on the farm.  Crops are maturing, exhausting themselves and giving way to insects, and it's time to plow th...