April showers...

Another week begins...with more rain! We keep on telling ourselves that the rain is a good thing, as it gives us at least an extra hour in the day when we don't need to be watering plants. It does, however, make working outside rather chilly and damp. The couple days of sun we've had in the past week have been a welcome relief, that's for certain. We've been busy planting at the farm, rain or shine. More onions are in, as are parsley, chives, strawberries and horseradish.

From left to right: chives, curly parsley, flat leaf parsley, and two rows of strawberries under mini hoops

We've also been taking advantage of the rainy days and working inside, seeding tomatoes, peppers, eggplant and kohlrabi. Some of the tomatoes we seeded a month ago are thinking it's June and time to go in the ground! Once the hoop house is up this coming weekend we can give them their wish. They'll be happy to be out of their pots. Speaking of the hoop house, it was delivered today! We spent the morning moving all the parts to the back of the property where we'll be building. It was an exhausting morning, and we were very thankful for the tractor!

Using the tractor to carry the bows back to where the hoop house will be built. It was a tight squeeze down the two-track!

-Shannon