Hey Two posts in one day. Thank God for the snow, sleet, rain, hail and wind today!!!!! I finally had time to slow down and work with a new employee and above all else think. Nice to have someone come up to try out and actually work with a sense of urgency. He actually ran in the greenhouse to get his t-shirt so we could go outside and get some stuff done. Basically he was keeping up with me. Making some real good beef chili for market tomorrow right now and have to bag salad still. Hmmmm bag salad...drink red wine...stoke the fire in the fireplace.......get er done.

Oh....Coconut Green Curry Root Veg soup tomorrow also. They are calling for another 1-3 inches of slushy stuff in the next 24 hours so some good hardy soups are in order. Peeps have been evicted from the greenhouse and are living in the "bachelorette pad". Two of them have taken up residence in the garage on the office stairs and two more are currently living under the front porch. The garage pair have been promoted director of HR and VP of HR while the two under the porch merit some title but I have not figured that out yet. I am still the lowly farmer. I just can't seem to wrangle a promotion out of the chickens..........

Well....Last "winter" farmer's market is tomorrow. VC gym from 10-2pm. Fitting that we will have snow this weekend. I have about an inch of it this morning. It's nice since it forces me to slow down and focus on the greenhouses. It's way too early for this warm weather. The asparagus is going to be very confused, come up early and then get frost and die back. the chickens are very confused with the white stuff. So what else is going on........ CSA has only 2 shares left to sell and we are full. A fair amount of the early early outdoor plantings have germinated and popped up through the soil. Weeds are getting an early start also. Saw my first tarnished plant bug of the season the other day. Killed the little bugger too. Nematodes have been added to the greenhouse soil in high hopes of controlling chafer beetles this year. Aphids are having a population explosion in the spinach. Turned loose the green lacewing larva. Hopefully they will get a handle on them before the summer stuff goes in. Quite a bit of carpentry needs to get done at some point around here. Definately need a heated potting shed. The use of the basement has reached capacity and then some. This will be the last year I am down there I hope. Deer pressure is going to be huge issue this year. Shooting will finally have to start. Much to the neighbors chagrin. Gotta go.

Well there you have it. Snow this morning, not much, but..... Supposed to be good fertilizer because it's melting and does something with ion exchange in the soil. Also makes me realize I am not as far behind as I think. Still quite a bit to get done this month. In May things will go full tilt for the summer.