What's up at the farm - early April edition
Since the newsletter isn't going to be published for another week, I thought it was time for another farm report to keep everyone up to date!
The new metal roof is completed. The construction crew had the 2 layers of asphalt+1 layer of cedar shakes off and the new metal roof on in just over 2 and half days. Wow.
The clean-up crew (mostly R, with some help from Dad and T) is still muddling along. Actually, there is just one area that has a pile left over. And, of course, there are plenty of nails looking for tires to deflate.
The pork buy is largely distributed - it's always a relief to complete those.
Taxes have been (and still are) taxing R as he works to complete them - that's why he's typing a blog post - got to do something different for a few minutes.
We are finding that we have outgrown the number of coolers and containers we have (again). Yikes.
The tomatoes range from 2 inches to 4 inches in height right now - approaching transplant stage in many cases.
The peppers and eggplant are just getting started. Rosemary are cute little things - and always so slow to get going.
Found a little bit of spinach that did overwinter. But, the wind did a number on most of the covers this year. That's the way it is sometimes.
We were shocked to discover that we only had 10 packages of frozen veggies left in our freezer from last year's efforts to store up. Hm.
Rain might be nice about now. Now is the time when we might like a little rain to store up for later. But, if prior weather patterns are any indication, we'll start getting it when we want to be in the fields more.
We are contemplating trying to put together a Tom Sawyer Day that doubles as a fund raiser for the Food Shelf. Stay tuned (and feel free to weigh in with suggestions for dates, etc)