It’s always exciting to find the first slithery garden friends of the year! We prefer the SMALL ones and the large ones can stay hidden!
We love growing year round, it is a comfort to know we will have food and we love providing it for our farm members! Next week is our “week off” from veggies to prepare for the next season. We will not be vacationing, we will be harvesting our first batch of chickens for the year! It will be great to have a quiet time to do that instead of fitting it into our busy days. Good planning or just coincidence, maybe!
We have a lovely smell coming out of the greenhouse right now…..our lemon trees are blooming! We have two small trees, but they make so many great smelling blooms! When it gets above a certain temperature a large fan kicks on to cool it off. I was walking past that end one day when the fan came on, I stood there and took a minute to “smell the lemons”! Just as I deeply inhaled and felt myself relaxing while enjoying the intense smell……the farmer was inside watering the baby plants waiting to go into the field. He is constantly playful……so he aimed the watering wand at the fan (from the inside and unbeknownst to me). At which point the fan sprayed water all over me!!!!!
We have been enjoying the greens a lot! Lots of people always talk about how important greens are and I believe this time of year (not to mention during the pandemic) it’s even more important to get those vital nutrients from our food. It’s funny how these vegetables thrive just at the time when we need them, in the spring! I’m sure God had that planned, it’s no accident.This weeks shares have beets with tops (I used them in a stir fry for lunch), also a baby greens salad mix, a braising mix (mustards, kale and beet greens-great also for stir fry), cabbage (plus full shares got some kimchi), white sweet potatoes, and turnips! Enjoy!
We enjoy the constant change on the farm, though at times it’s hard to keep track of it all. We just bred our cow Ducklegs and hope that she will take and will have another January calf next year! We are doing our planning about when we want babies to arrive so our milk supply is constant. It’s an ongoing process and we enjoy the challenge it is to keep it on schedule! Not to mention Thanksgiving turkeys, they have been ordered for several months now and we look forward to meeting those cute babies in July!
Be well and stay tuned for details concerning our new pick up systems for the Summer CSA and complying with health and safety standards. Remember it begins April 30th and May 2nd 2-5 PM.
Blessings,
The Bakers