We hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving, we were so thankful for the mild weather! We had a lovely harvest of some huge turkeys, with the average being 23 pounds! Yum! We are finishing up getting the tree farm closed up. It’s amazing that we sold out of trees from our beautiful family farm in Highland county, VA, in just two days! The cabin still has lots of lovely wreaths and center pieces to brighten your home. The smell is amazing! We will be in the cabin from 2-5 Saturday for selling local Christmas gifts and handing out the meat shares. We are fully stocked with all the herbal items, so grab some before they are gone!
The farmer girls are busy planting a few hundred tulip and daffodil bulbs to make the farm more cheerful next spring! The farmer boys have news too! Tommy bought an interesting cart that you lay down on to pick vegetables and strawberries. It’s a great invention that is solar powered and saves your back from the difficult process of harvesting things that grow close to the ground! It’s to help him with his new enterprise of organic strawberries! Last year he took over the lettuce production on the farm and this year he is taking over the strawberries. Meanwhile middle farmer boy, Timmy, has decided to become a broom maker. He is going to begin is first broom today! I just hope that he practices using it a lot in the farm house!
We are harvested the first greens out of the new greenhouse! All the work it was makes them taste better to me! The radishes and mustard greens from this week are among the first things we harvested. There is plenty more great stuff to come! The kale is still doing great in the field and I can’t get enough root crops this time of year. So great in soups and roasted! Don’t forget to roast the seeds of the butternut with a little coconut oil and salt! OH and beet chips, I love to slice them thin, brush them with oil and salt and then roast at 350 until crisp. They disappear so fast!
Well have a great week, and enjoy your Christmas preparations! I’ll be posting my favorite hot coco recipe soon, I can’t wait to dig it out!
Blessings,
Your farmers