This first day of spring is being ushered in with yet more rain, making for a wet harvest day. Steve was on the tractor dawn to dusk through the weekend getting ground worked up and compost spread in advance of the storm. He wasn’t the only one. Some nearby farms have had tractors working through the night.
It seems that this frantic push to get ground ready while it’s dry enough to get a tractor in was worth the trouble, since this rain is panning out to be a substantial storm with an even wetter system forecast for the end of the week.
All the rain has somewhat hampered our spring production schedule. We’ve managed to get quite a few crops planted over the past two months in between the rainstorms, but most of them need some more time and sunshine to mature. The strawberries are going to be quite late this year. The plants look good and healthy, but they are not setting fruit yet. The wait will make them that much more welcome when they arrive!
Most of the year we fill the boxes with the produce we grow and harvest from our own fields. However, in the lean days of early spring, and particularly this year, we bring in some goodies from other local small farms to round out our boxes. We are lucky to be surrounded by a thriving small scale organic agriculture community. While nobody has a lot coming in right now, we are able to tap an item or two from several different sources. Your box this week will have items from Heirloom Organic Gardens, Far West Fungi, Everlasting Gardens, and Coke Farm.
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