Spring is well underway at the Mississippi NCAT Demonstration Farm! New to our operation this year is a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program. This is basically a subscription program: Customers sign up for a weekly veggie box delivery, lasting 12-weeks. Sam Humphrey, farm manager, has delivered this to customers for…

Farm Manager Sam Humphrey has been transitioning from summer crops to fall crops for weeks now.  It is a slow process as summer crops gradually taper off.  Meanwhile the fall crops that thrive in cooler weather make the journey from seed to transplant to field. Sam has pulled out the…

[caption id="attachment_10996" align="alignleft" width="335"] Look closely and you can see all those baby grasshoppers on a pepper plant.[/caption] After a busy spring of preparations, demonstration farm manager Sam Humphrey got to enjoy the satisfaction of a harvest this week.  He picked the first of his crop of banana peppers and…