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You may have noticed a lack of posts lately. We’ve been so busy that I haven’t had time to write anything. Tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, and summer squash are overflowing our baskets, as well as kale, lettuce, kohlrabi, Swiss chard, and other things. The melons are starting to ripen and the winter squash is coming soon!

Market season is here! Our first market is Saturday, June 6, in Carlisle. Not a lot to sell yet – just syrup, honey, rhubarb, and plants, but the lettuce is coming along and we should have some in another week or two.

The cabbages are in and watered. We start putting in tomatoes this weekend. The irrigation pump and lines are up and running. Some new bees arrive next week. The first farmers’ market is only 3 weeks away.

March and April are a crazy time at the farm. Seeds to start, fences to fix, rows to till, bees to tend. The chickens have started laying again. The bees are bringing in pollen. The garlic, some of the first green in the field, is looking nice. We’re off to a good start.

After a really nasty cold spell, things are warming up. Today we started putting up taps and buckets.

We’re looking at a nasty cold snap for the next week. Early January had some warm days, and there was probably some sap flow in the maples, but we decided to wait. Glad we did. We’ll be tapping trees as soon as the cold snap is over

Got the sap tanks cleaned up and got the RO unit ready. In another 6 weeks we may be tapping trees !

Cleaning up the field is not the most glorious task, but it needs to be done. So far, we’ve prepared 111 rows. Only 37 left. Hope we can get it all done before the first snow.

The first frost came in the wee hours of Friday. We managed to strip most of the field on Thursday. The tomatoes, eggplant, and peppers are done for the season. The winter squashes seem to have survived.

The fall garlic planting is the next activity, then we clean the fields and hunker down for the winter.

The end is in sight. Things have slowed in the field, and we’re starting to clean rows and prepare for next spring. There’s one planting left to do – the garlic goes in in the next few weeks.