Lots going on

Every week there are a number of different things that happen at the farm. Every Monday and Friday we harvest for CSA and/or for market. Every Saturday we are at market. Growing a number of different crops means that any given week of the season we are most likely planting a new crop of something, tending to a growing crop, mowing down a finished crop and harvesting off of all the crops that are currently ready. Fitting other work into this schedule has proven to be a challenge so after over three years of needing to have our barn painted we are having it done for us. Currently the barn has been scraped clean and should be painted by this time next week. I also don't like climbing around on ladders and roofs so I am happy not to have to do this.


We should have cucumbers shortly. This is one crop that needs tending each week. In an effort to keep the cukes disease free we clip them to this trellis. Most of those little yellow flowers will be cucumbers in the next few weeks!









Our flower season is really beginning to take off. In her "studio" in the front room of the barn Emily turns our flowers into fresh, wonderful bouquets.














We had family in town this weekend, and we've been doing this long enough that our family knows that when they come visit they get to watch our son, Evan, while we take the opportunity to get a little more work done on the weekend. This weekend we planted lots (over 1000) of sunflowers, some strawflower and statice...















and we finished planting a squash field that we began on Friday afternoon.