Saturday, March 9, 2019


 
All the photos in this post are the work of Barbara O'Brien - she came to visit this summer along with our home school friends. She's an amazing artist!  (We thought you could use a little summer).

Heeeyyyy friends!

Streeetch! That's me, flexing my unused blogger muscles. :) I'm going back to my roots. We tried Mail Chimp last year, and it has benefits for sure but I prefer a good old-fashioned blog. 

It's been (and still is) a long, long winter. But we promise spring will come sooner than later, and we have plant babies in the greenhouse to prove it. 

We're plowing snow like crazy, and hustling hoses and frozen potting mix and flats in and out of the cooler/insulated seeding room and greenhouses. Farmer Mike finally put an 8 foot tall flag on the water hydrant, as we've already lost it in the 6-foot blowing snow drifts twice. :)

This year feels good coming upon us. Our 7th year of farm business - woot!

We're blessed with the gifts of greater wisdom and experience, and they come in handy. Farm business is risky. Farming in the new norms of climate change is very risky. We put up a new, beautiful plastic covered hoop house and greenhouse this year. While we need it so badly, we've been scared to do it because of the increasing winds and storm events and now, heavy snow. But the bottom line is that we can't continue to do what we do without a better set-up, so we take these steps in faith. That the storms will be gentle, our houses strong, and if we do have damage, our skill set and resilience help us to take next steps to problem solve and begin again. So it goes in farming, and all of life.

One of the things I love so much about the "farming food and flowers lifestyle" is the seasonality of it. We can hunker down and rest during the winter season, so that we can emerge in spring with our strong bodies, rested minds and renewed resolve to farm like our lives depend on it. Because they do.

We're offering certified organic bedding plants, watermelon and garlic this year! And our flowers will continue to be farmed with organic practices, but we chose not to certify them directly because it's too complicated, expensive and not practical for our purposes. 

Hope you're all very well - we'll see you very soon!
xxoo

J,M + E