Our greenhouse has been brimming full with transplants for the fields, and bedding plants for the markets.
As of now, most of our full season crops are in the ground, and we hope to get our sweet potatoes in sometime this week.
The heat has really brought the crops along quickly, and has forced us to do quite a bit of irrigating.
Besides the usual hiccups of broken equipment and shifting weather patterns, it has been an excellent spring for growing, and we are looking forward to bringing in the harvest.
June is about as busy as it gets on the farm—Between planting the summer and fall crops, irrigating, weeding, and harvesting the spring crops, and then the deliveries and the markets begin. It feels like there should be a couple of extra days built into the week to accommodate the work load.
Add to the mix 50 acres of hay and 10 acres of straw to cut, and before you know it the days just fly by…
We’re looking forward to a great year, and hope it is the best yet!
New Arrival
Our pony Ice Cream delivered a beautiful long legged filly on Sunday morning around 9:30. It was a short birth and all are doing well right here in the barnyard pastures.
Our once very calm and approachable pony has become a very protective and quick footed mother. Hopefully her hormones will calm a bit and we can get our hands on her little girl.
After many discussions about various frozen desert related names. We seem to have settled on Sundae, probably that will morph into Sunny (as it already has) but time will tell what names we will come up with as we get to know this little wonder.
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