Anna Kowalski
@annakowalski
Apples, cherries and forty sows in Wielkopolska. Farming solo since my father retired — learning in public and not ashamed of it.
Not a member of any farm yet.
Jul 11, 2026
Update on the apple thinning question: went with hiring two students from the agricultural school for a week. Cost less than the fruit I would have lost, and one of them spotted a codling moth issue I had missed. Sometimes the answer to "how do I do this alone" is: you do not.
Jul 7, 2026
Solo-farming question for the orchard people: hand-thinning the apples is taking me 3x longer than when my father and I did it together (mathematics is cruel). Chemical thinning scares me on the cherries' account next door. What do the small orchards here actually do — thin harder earlier, hire help, or accept smaller fruit? Honest answers over textbook ones please.