The “back pasture” We are hoping to put it into a conservation easement later this year!
News from the farm…What a week it’s been! We had some really hot days last week that gave way to a much cooler and wetter earlier part of this week. The cooler weather is certainly welcome, all the rain is not. Well to be truthful, as a farmer, the weather is almost never what we want it to be. It’s too hot, too cool, too dry, or too wet, at all the wrong times. Last week we saw the first tomatoes ripen and have enjoyed a few of them and have gotten a few others to enjoy them as well. Then along comes the cool weather, which we enjoy to work in, but those nice temps really slow down the ripening of the tomatoes. It’s been raining off and on for days now. The crops enjoy the rain, they are growing faster, producing more with all the water. And the weeds like the rain too, so they grow faster and the gorund is too wet to drive our tractors in, so we can’t plant or cultivate all those fast growing weeds. Poor us. We keep ourselves busy with other projects and will come back to the weeds as soon as it dries out enough.
We’re starting to think about Fall! It is so crazy, we’ve just hit summer, and we’ve sown the early rounds of kales and other fall crops, broccoli, kales & cabbages.
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