Spring Fling

And what a spring we've had!

The early thaw and gorgeous weather has allowed us to get an early start in the gardens.

Plowing and tilling of the soil has been started, as well as cover crops sowed.

Let the composting begin! Compost is one of the best thing for our gardens....that, along with leaves and grass clippings. We take donations of any of those if you don't know what to do with yours.

The rhubarb has never been so big this early. We will be having rhubarb desserts in no time.

The garlic looks amazing this year too. It should be nice and big for our mid-summer harvest.

We start 99% of our own seeds. We have gone through many bales of this.

We start some to sell at our farm stand, but the rest are for direct planting in our gardens. All seedlings are 3-4" tall at this point, and have been transferred from their starter plugs to the bigger flats.

....................Onions & Leeks....................

.........................All the rest!..........................

We have had a few cold nights, so the k-1 heater stays in the hoop house just in case we need to start it to protect the plants. Most of the time it is over 70* in there, which explains why we have these growing in April.

...............................Parsley.............................

.............................Lettuce Mix..................................

We even have foot tall tomato plants with blossoms!

These plants will stay in here and should give us an early yield of tomatoes.

Many of our direct seeded crops have been sown, and it won't be long until all the seedlings go out in the garden too.

And We're Off

Last year we ran our trial CSA program. We took 3 memberships, and tried the whole idea out and ran for 5 months. We had a lot of fun with it! We always seemed to have plenty of produce, and a variety to offer. We didn't have any complaints, even when we had the awful tomato blight and lost all that crop. It didn't turn them away and 2 have returned for this year!

Not much will change from last year. We've stremlined our growing plan to have more succession crops, and decided to go with a less bulky way of packing each weeks share (but the bushel baskets were soooo cute!). But the delicious organic produce will still be the same!


We decided the concept worked, and wanted to grow this year, but not too much. We felt confident from last years success, but we limited ourselves to what we thought we could handle growing and said we would take 10 memberships. The funny thing is, we were placed on a CSA directory list with MOFGA, and the response was overwhelming! After filling our limited number of slots (we ended up with 11), we have had in excess of 20 inquiries. I have sadly had to turn them all down.

We wish we could grow for that many people, but we are just backyard gardeners at best, not true farmers by any stretch. We all have other jobs or commitments that keep us from being a large scale farm. Still, we think we like it that way :-)

We do hope to be able to offer a few more memberships for next year, but for now, sorry to all those who we had to disappoint.