Summer Keeps Marching On!

Here at the farm the welcoming of August is a mixed bag. August is undoubtedly a huge harvest month, it is when we find out ultimately what the results of our labor has amounted to. Every year we feel like we learn allot but we do make some small adjustments which we feel will improve our outcomes. Nature is a fickle thing, so it feels as though quite often we make a change that we think will make an impact but it my be something else entirely which ultimately changed things. Learning from the previous year is good, but ideally we look back over multiple years to draw conclusions. Relying on research done at extension offices or universities proves time and again to be quite unreliable in our context. An example of that is Japanese millet, which we planted down the spaces between the beds as recommended by a research article I read. This grass grows at a ridiculous rate causing a number of headaches for us this season as we repeatedly attempt knock it back. Since this plant produces large clumps of seed, I do think it will be there for the sheep to graze after all the crop is finished up, but needless to say this plant will no longer be intentionally introduced again! I hope you are enjoying the bounty from our farm, even though our kale crop is really a failure this season. Sorry for that, and thanks you for your support as we strive to improve our growing skills.