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November 20, 2005
Winter on the farm
As winter approaches... short, rainy, cold days, it is all to easy to sit by the fire with a hot cup of tea letting the hours roll by. But these days are spent catching up on farm-related projects that get neglected during the busy summer months. Finishing the siding on our packing shed is our top priority, completing the landscaping around our irrigation pond and finishing the fountains and landscaping on our ornamental pond (a five year project that always seems to be put on the back burner). The huge storage shed we built four years ago still needs a coat of paint; the winter greenhouse we built last year to grow winter greens is still waiting for its end walls. The greenhouse one of my employees drove into last year eagerly awaits some T.L.C. Planning for next seasons crops and seed orders need to be completed by the end of the year. Our propagation greenhouse needs to be cleaned out(we will be planting in there by the first of the year) and so on and so on....... all this while still harvesting and cleaning produce for our two remaining farmers markets and our 200 member winter C.S.A. program. The harvesting season will extend to the end of January this year.
As I sit here typing this, it makes me realize just how busy the farm is and for everything we get to scratch off the list we add two more. For as busy as it is, I would not trade this lifestyle for anything. I am planning for a three week break sometime in late January.... what will I do?????????
Posted by Jeff at November 20, 2005 04:28 PM
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