New happenings at the farm

Here's a shot of our garlic field. Young garlic plants just emerged earlier this week.

trays of tomatoes that will be planted in the high tunnels

Broccoli and cabbage plants growing. We're hoping to have broccoli in the first or second share box.

Yellow sweet onions and red onions growing very well in the greenhouse. In another month they will be going in the field.

We were also able to get some ground tilled up. Our ground is early ground and drains well. The soil was shallowly plowed with a moldboard plow to turn it over and get rid of the clover cover crop that had been growing since last Spring. Then it was disced and oats were planted as a cover crop to protect the soil until it's time to plant warm weather crops in late May and early June. The soil will then be chisel plowed for deep aeration and then disced to form a seedbed before planting.

With the warm weather the last week and a half, we were able to get the plastic on two high tunnels, which will be used for growing early tomatoes to put in our members share boxes. We hope to have these by mid July!

New Baby Chicks

Here is some pictures of our new 5 day old chicks. They should be laying eggs in about 5 1/2 months from now. The main flock is Delaware's, and for an experiment we ordered a few Golden Polish. They seem to be doing very well, and we'll have them out of the brooder and on pasture at 4 weeks

First tomato seeds of the season started today! I'm growing four varieties of heirlooms and also a hybrid variety that has worked out very well. They will be on a heat mat until they germinate, then after they've been up a couple weeks will be transplanted into 36 cell trays. These tomatoes will be going in my three high tunnels around the 3rd week of April.