While it always feels funny to me to start fall crops in the middle of summer, I am learning the importance of giving them the opportunity to get their roots under them well before the temperature drops. This will be our third fall and winter during which we will attempt…
Happy Monday, everyone! We’re coming off an amazing weekend here (temperatures up close to 70 degrees) and according the forecast, we’re supposed to have a full week of 60 and 70 degree weather with lows above freezing! Crazy. I opened up the hoop houses yesterday and decided it was going…
Happy Monday everyone! What a week it’s been! We had beautiful weather pretty much every day this week except for Sunday, which was absolutely disgusting…windy and grey and dusty and gross…so darn windy that plastic to one of my hoop houses is pretty much torn to shreds. We attached a…
This week I, again, didn’t get into the hoop houses. It snowed all day Saturday and Sunday it just wasn’t warm enough for me to feel comfortable opening them up and letting all the heat out. So, this weeks harvests are only from under the grow lights (thank goodness for…
Happy Monday, everyone!!! Well, this week the weather has been all over the place! Warm and sunny mixed with cold and windy. We even got a couple of dustings of snow. Weird, weird winter. The warmth and longer days have really affected our hoop houses and everything is looking even…
Happy Monday everyone! This week I’ll be posting two weeks worth of harvests since I didn’t make it into this space last week. Even still, trust me, there’s not a lot to post about 😉 Just a few greens, some spinach and a few carrots (yep, again) to report this…
Happy Monday everyone! Alright, so I finally got into the hoop houses again on Saturday. The sun was shining beautifully and it was quite warm outside…scary warm for February, actually. I checked everything out, watered the fruit trees and just enjoyed the sun on my back for a bit. I…
Happy Monday everyone! We’ve got some more greens to report this week! Enough to actually make a couple of small salads! I checked on our wagons again and things are looking steadily better, I even poked my finger around a few carrots and they seem to be sizing up nicely…