Well, it's April 28th and it's windy out there.  The greenhouse is growing nicely.  There's lots of things growing for transplants, as well as some greens growing right in the ground (turnips, lettuce, kale, collards).  All of our organic transplants are doing quite qwell in the greenhouse.

With winds at 90/km, the boys are out in the field dumping dirt on the plastic to keep it from flying away.

Next week, weather permitting, we start planting strawberries.  10,000 come this Wed.

We are trying ...

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At 5:40 on Thursday morning, Jenny and I were slowly waking and discussing the next phase of planting season.  We had just made a huge order with Rekkers, a local greenhouse, and were both wondering what kind of manpower would be needed to get the job done.  The kids strolled in around 6 and did their usual dive between the covers as Jenny and I kept working on the details of how we would get those plants in.  Would we use raised beds?  Mulch?  What plants needed to get in the ground first?  ...
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