spring

Last week in pictures


Picking cucumbers

So long, lettuce! See you again come fall.

Picking parsley

Parsley prep

Washing beets

Wheel hoes in the chard

The tomatoes are coming! The tomatoes are coming!

This watermelon is about the right size for Arlo right now.

Beautiful beets!

Last week in pictures

Posted by Lisa on June 14, 2010
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Arlo loves watching the harvest

Another friendly reminder that farming is hard on your back!

Transplanter travails

A scallion is a good plaything

First potatoes of 2010!

Ta da!

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” *

Posted by Lisa on June 07, 2010
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Watering the greenhouse

Transplanting tomatoes

Hooping

Stirrup hoe

Spreading compost

A little rest for the weary

Spreading pearl millet seed to grow as a green mulch between tomato rows

Admiring the fruits of our labors

Washing lettuce

Baby's first chard!

Just a quick peek into how we’ve been keeping ourselves busy these last few months.  We’ll try to start every week in similar fashion here on the blog — a photographic look back at the week before. Hope you’ll join us!

* Thanks to Margaret Atwood for the reminder.

At season’s start (a peek)

Posted by Lisa on March 31, 2010
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And like THAT!, our winter’s rest is over and the farm has come alive again.  Here’s a little bit of what’s been filling our days in recent weeks.  We have lots of things in store for the blog this season, so come visit often!