Spring has sprung!

Thank goodness! I hate winter and each year decide it must be my last New England winter. I moved into my new cabin out in the woods and made it super cozy with my wood stove. I got a lovely cabin with a 5-minute hike as my daily commute. After 2 months I figured out how to hook up my little solar charger working so I can now have a little light shining.

But spring this year has arrived and the fields are already full of food - we planted peas March 18 in a bout of warm weather and despite the fact that their third night in the ground was a chilling 17, they have come up nicely. Our "lil' hoophouse" is jam packed with romaine lettuce that we'll harvest in just a couple weeks and we have already put kale and chard and kohlrabi out in the garden, and are trying to protect them from chicken nibbling with some holey remay. I got to use my Planet Junior seeder with the kids a couple weeks ago and after a successful flame weeding our spinach and beets are poking up.

Michael has been super busy up in New Hampshire, renting an excavator to clear out some of the trees we've taken down and to dig holes to put in his whole orchard - peaches, nectarines, apples, pears, and plums! And with all the prunings from the Farm School we're getting him set up with grapes, black raspberries and extra strawberries to be the fruit man.