Spring is farm improvement time.
Concrete pad and pallet wall. Keeping fertility on the farm. Or, as we joked when we were putting it together, this wall is to keep manure in – not to keep people out.
Produce For Sale
Our current crop of black beans, heirloom corn, and hard red winter wheat is currently available.
Farm Photos
Scape season! Not a moment too soon. I went in the grocery store for the first time in a long time this week, and the garlic there was very sad looking.My assistant came to work in his pajamas and his Superman gardening gloves yesterday.Saturday night fireworks. Bad news: some stuff broke. Good news: I noticed before it became messier and more expensive. And now it’s fixed!I came within 4 inches of mowing one of these babies. I just happened to have switched to the open tractor and smaller mower because rain was coming and I didn’t want to take the time to refuel the big tractor. By the time I figured out what it was, I was past it, and I didn’t know if it was OK or if I had hurt it. So I asked my dad, who has a stronger stomach than I do, to find it and put it out of its misery if I had injured it with the mower. And lo and behold, there were two! Both unharmed. And one of them was so new, the one closer to the bottom of the frame in this photo, that it had not even been licked clean yet. It couldn’t stand up, so it was definitely less than four hours old, but my dad thinks probably was born within the last hour before we found it. The older one with the visible spots kept trying to run right where I was mowing a circle around them, so he had to put on a clean glove and hold its hind legs. We left a patch of rye about 15 feet wide and 20 feet long surrounding them, and hopefully the mom will come back soon.Switched to the open tractor to avoid having to stop to refuel since it’s already raining here according to the radar. Mask on for pollen intake reduction. As you can see from my puffy eyes, they still haven’t recovered from yesterday.If you wondered why your eyes are itching, it might be….Mowing field edges, finally! (The mower only goes on the tractor that’s recently back in service after a long stay with the tractor doctor and some open-engine surgery.)Hallelujah! It’s all together! It runs!News Briefs
Events
Our annual Farm Tour & Tea is cancelled for 2019 due to an extremely wet planting season (we expect that some things might not be planted by the last week in June). We hope to host a potluck party on the farm later in the season instead. As soon as we have set a date, we’ll let you know here and via social media.
