Getting off the farm is hard, even if it just for a couple days. But it felt good being able to leave it in competent hands as we did just that over the weekend to attend an out of town wedding. Even better, we got our hay in before leaving. Most of it we got […]
Strawberry season is here! First picking today, so we’ll have to see how many we get, but at least it should be something. Rain in the later part of the week may make our picking schedule difficult, but we’ll just have to live with it. We need the rain, and have been thankful for what […]
It’s been a good week for progress, even if we didn’t get the entire list checked off. Of course we still feel behind, but it’s holding. Most of the tomatoes are planted in the field, probably half the potatoes, and parsnips got seeded. Overall a success. We decided not to take our chances on cutting […]
It’s shearing season for the sheep. We had actually initially planned to schedule a little later in the season, when more of them had had their lambs, but seeing how much happier the sheep look it was probably just a good thing to get it done. Last week our sheep sheerer called us up and […]
This weekend we have been very happy to finally have our backup power operational. After initial estimates of a few hours to restore power, over a day after the storm we are still not back to full power. Besides the storm the week was already so busy that it is hard to remember what […]
Spring arrived in a rush this week. After last weekend’s frost, the asparagus surprised us by bouncing back quickly, and we were harvesting by Wednesday night. Rhubarb is also nearly ready and the spring turnips in the greenhouse. In the field our early seeded greens are up and growing, but still tiny. We are mostly […]
Planting season is underway and it is starting to feel more and more like spring is here to stay. But as seems to be the case the last few years, just when the asparagus is starting to come up, and is looking promising to be ready within the week, we get frost again and it […]
As seems to be the weather lately, we have a really nice warm spell and then another cold snap. A week ago we were sharing about having planted out our first cabbages, but in the week between it has been more of the cold side of that swing holding us off from doing as much […]
It is really amazing sometimes how overnight you can go from waiting for field conditions to be ready, to hopelessly behind on work. The seesawing temperatures this spring haven’t made that any better for sure, delaying us planting out our cabbage a couple weeks from when they were ready, but there is always a certain […]
April 18, This week has flown by with such a hive of activity at the farm. The variable weather has kept us from the main planting rush, but there are so many preparations. Equipment to get onsite and ready, greenhouse work to have seedlings ready and hardening off for planting this week. And we planted […]