Getting Ready... More

Moving shavings one handful at a time is a great activity.

J's birthday is on Thursday, we got her 25 very special surprises...  We have been getting ready for their arrival, she of course has no idea what we are doing.  She is under the impression we got her a bag of shavings as a gift, she couldn't be happier.

Pit Stop

We are racing to catch up after the storm that hit the East Coast.  We were already cutting it close with getting started this year and the storm only delayed us more.  With this being a new venture, all the equipment is also new (to us) and all has little things that have to be fixed (hit repeatedly with a hammer and mumbled at furiously) before we can use it.

But we are getting there!  We have started our seeds in our heated greenhouse!  It is hard (for me) to imagine but each of these trays have about 5000 seeds in them.  Everything from eggplants, peppers, lettuce, cabbage, chard, kale, to beets and many in between.

Spring onions for all!

And here we have soil blocks with spring onions.  For those of you who do not know, my experience is with animal farming.  So these chores are relatively new to me.  I was put in charge of placing three seeds in each soil block.  I am wondering at what point my husband will realize I may have been... generous...

And, last but not least, the first of our two movable greenhouses has been seeded!  The crops in here will be our early crops for our earliest farmers markets!  This will be a fun time lapse image once everything gets growing.

Nope... raining in this spot too...

J would also like me to let all perspective farmers know that although it may not be raining, you should always still bring a raincoat to the farm.  This is crucial so that when the layflat has a leak, you can stand in the spray and investigate it properly.