Mother’s Day weekend: May 8th
We are busy planting. Everything is full of hope. No deer have eaten a field of strawberries yet.
When we look out our window first thing in the morning, we no longer see frost. In fact we’ve moved back into our early routines. Irrigation is the first thing and the last thing we do each day now. It is a beautiful sight to see five fields being watered at once.
We keep adding things to the fields, ignoring our plans (similar to what we did in the greenhouses). This week, that included adding lots of leeks to one of our new drip fields, where we also planted tomatoes, spinach, kale and chard.
Chefs Janelle and Christian brought us a picnic basket of the items they are making for Mother’s day picnic boxes. Wow I missed their food. The Mother’s Day farm to plate picnic boxes are almost sold out, but don’t worry, we will also have some other amazing food Mother’s Day weekend. Chop sandwiches are back, along with some new grab and go picnic boxes.
Here are some scenes from the month, including videos of our animals with the zoomies:
Rolo getting closer and closer to our Mother’s Day picnic photoshoot.
Rolo gets a ride back to the barn.
Jim and Luis, planting corn with the rebuilt corn planter.
This is a “before photo,” fixing the corn planter.
Flame weeding corn.
Test rows, that we did not flame weed.
Corn rows we did flame weed. Super exciting.
This week we have been spending a lot of time fixing leaky irrigation lines.
Yet another broken irrigation line. Hard to know if it’s the age of the lines or the PSI, which we’ve adjusted down.
Even the smaller lines in the greenhouse needed repair.
“Before photo.”
And we added more drip lines. This sketch is of the flowers area in front of the market.
Making Bokashi: Add one part Molasses, one part EM, to 20 parts water, before mixing into coffee husks.
Mix coffee husks in. You don’t want them too wet. More like a damp sponge, that when you squeeze, liquid doesn’t come out.
After two weeks of fermenting, it’s ready to use. Spread on fields, or use to breakdown compost.
Our fall boot washing station works great for cow baths.
Happy chef: Christian tasting some of our radishes.
More greenhouse love: Janelle testing the strawberries.
Jose is back after surgery — and doing great!
Neighbor Dave Eakin transforming the parking lot . . .
. . . and the greenhouse area.
One of the chickens kept making herself at home under Dave’s seat.
No more muddy parking lot.
Bringing the mini-donkeys in for the night.
Our youngest is now in charge of turning of off the irrigation pump and big guns at night.
Bedtime chores.
Had some friends visit yesterday. Their kids are duck whisperers.
More duck whispering.
Weekends Only: we are opening May 8th - but for the month of May, we will only be open on weekends. We will open full time, including the produce market May 29th (Memorial Day weekend).