The first of our three planned community events at the farm is this Saturday June 1st. We will have a planting party from 2-5pm followed by a pot-luck dinner. It looks to be a beautiful day. If you don’t want to, or can’t make it to the planting part, feel free to just come for the pot-luck. Please bring your own dishes and cutlery.

For those who do come for planting, there’s also mulching if you don’t do well on your hands and knees. If you have a pitch fork, or trowel, it would be helpful if you could bring them. We have several here, but maybe not enough. Depending on who’s here and how the day goes there might even be tomato post pounding… so many fun opportunities!

If you have any questions, let us know… Hope to see you here!

Will see some of you today for the Spring CSA, but also wanted to share a quick note about the spring. I’m grateful that I have been working with premade beds, since, as is common, we have a wet spring and preparing beds between the rains would be, and has been challenging.
Part of the pre-made beds issue that I’ve run into in the past is that if the spring is very wet the weeds start taking off before I can even scratch the surface of the bed to plant. Last year I had the idea of a horse implement that I could use to do this. The implements I have used with the previous horses I can’t use with the horses that are here now (that’s a bit of a long story). I designed it and had it fabricated and am trying it out for the first time this spring. Not a lot of time for experimentation, but with continual tweaking it’s coming along.

Still trying to come up with a name for the tool… any ideas?