Hello Everyone. Like many of you, we haven't been able to see the Grandparents in over a year. Just took a long weekend trip and the kids are still floating on a cloud of Grandparent love. So grateful to our crew for holding down the fort while we left.
Look how much your apples have grown! Time to thin.. Why do we thin apples? It increases the size of each apple, keeps branches from breaking, and reduces pest damage. (Just a itty bitty teaching moment ;) ) Spring planted crops are finally starting to come in. The strawberries are hitting their stride and if you want to put up jam, I'm planning on offering whole and 1/2 flats next week. We're starting to harvest cabbages, carrots, gold beets, and broccoli and cauliflower should be available consistently from here on out. By next week we'll have our first fennel too. All the winter squash are up along with dry beans and now we're in a race to weed them. If we can get through the next month, even if the water runs out, we should get a crop. Keep your fingers crossed. The flow of the season is full of these moments when we have to straddle time. We've almost completed our 2021 flower sowings and while the Spring planted flowers are only just coming on, in just a few weeks we'll need to plan our 2022 Winter and Spring as most of those sowings happen in July and August. No time to pause now for a farmer... The semi-truck is rolling down the hill and if we stop it'll run right over us. But thank goodness for kids who notice the hummingbird at the window and the spider web on the deck and force us to pause and just take in this amazing vibrant technicolor beauty that this partnership of humans and nature is nurturing.
