Almost Spring Update from the Farm

The hoophouse is producing the first spinach and lettuces. We'd have more, but some little critter burrowed into the hoophouse about 3 or so weeks ago and ate almost all the spinach and some chard! I planted some small rows of radishes and carrots for us.

The greenhouse is filling up. All the allium family is planted: all the red and yellow onion seeds, leek seeds, the first full tray of scallion seeds, and it's time to start another tray. All the celeriac is seeded in cells, even though we haven't yet harvested all of last year's crop! It's probably the longest season veggie we grow. Lettuces were already large enough to transplant into the hoophouse. More are started, including head lettuces. The earliest plantings of kale, chard, mustards, sprouting broccoli, celery, about 60 early varieties of tomatoes, some hot and sweet peppers, parsley, basil and cilantro are all growing. More trays are planted almost every day. It's time to start kohlrabis- about 250 cells will be planted. We start a lot of the seeds indoors to transplant out in April and May so that you will have CSA veggies sooner. It's more work, but you are paying for that. To give you some idea of scale, here's some numbers of veggies planted indoors: 144 celery cells, nearly 300 celeriac cells, 144 cells of broccoli, over 200 head lettuces, etc etc etc.

We are also making maple syrup now - drew off the first few gallons today. We bought new pans and are still figuring out this system.

The sunny weather has been fantastic! It's so appreciated after snow and cold and especially cloudy days.