Wednesday, March 24, 2010

So much for summer...fall has managed to come early this year...just joking. Well things keep moving along, even me. Today is a thinking day. A bit of snow flying around with really cold temps coming for this Friday. It will be interesting to see what happens with the greenhouses since all of the plants have gone into spring mode and 6 degrees forecasted for Friday night. Only 2 winter markets left for April then the summer market gets started on May 1st. We are due for a nice summer. Peeps are flying all over the place need to get the new housing built for them and finish a few greenhouse projects up. Seeding stuff like crazy and trying to get ahead with the soup making. Lot's of stuff to do with one week left in March. April will be pretty crazy. Well off to do some book keeping.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Good Morning!!! Well early "summer" this year is driving me crazy. I have had to come out of my winter lethargy with force instead of easing into the season. Good? Bad? I really have not decided yet. I am really worried that the "hot" weather of the last 2 weeks is now going back to normal cold for the rest of the month and is going to cause problems in the greenhouses. Seems spinach, swiss chard, and sorrel have survived quite well under some remay out in the fields. It will be interesting to see how it grows out. Soup business is going well and picking up alot of new accounts for early spinach and salad. Kate my new farm manager is doing a great job while being thrown into things. The extra help she provides is greatly needed and appreciated. The other Kate (Kate 2) is back up once a week and really helping get the harvesting done. Soup is on the burner for market and man am I getting sick of bagging salad......Ah well. So hope to see all of you at market today, sugar on snow, I have veggie chili and a real nice potato,bean, ham soup. Peeps are doing well and almost ready to move outside. Need to get coops built and other construction projects on the move. bye.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Crop Mobs!! http://greenmountaincropmob.weebly.com/index.html
Cut and paste the link above. I just read about this in southern california, what a great idea! Pass the word to others.