The first day of summer comes to the farm with hopes of dryer conditions. Even with the wet spring, crops are starting to come up as you can see with these tomato plants.
Early this morning, the tools were out and ready to go as some extra help of all kinds was out and working in the sunshine. Things are looking good for a variety of tomatoes to be ready soon, potentially as early as July 4th.
We took this picture of one of our trees in bloom yesterday. Here we are at the end of April and winter showed its ugly face again today as we had snow flurries at the farm today. Our vegetables which are up look good, but they could use warm sunshine and timely rains. On a different note, our bio-diesel project is going well. All we use in our tractor at this time has been produced by recycling used cooking oil. I must tip my hat to a good friend, Terry Tygrett from Oak Hill Acres as the project would be nowhere without him. We are both using 100% recycled cooking oil to power our equipment. It feels good to be independent of big oil and the high prices of this spring. I will get pictures online as soon as we have photos to show off our processing rig. This tree is just one of many of our Ranier Cherries which should yield fruit this year
This has been a very busy week. We had four day in a row which had no rain. We planted 300 fruit trees this week. The warm temperatures are bringing out the buds on the trees we put in last year. It appears like this year we will have to be ready to move planting on any given dry day. We also planted more cabbage and spinach and radishes. Our Rhubarb is looking very good and finally I think spring is taking hold. The count down to Farmers Market is on. Two weeks from today we will begin selling at the two markets we attend. We look forward to seeing each of you at the Trinity Farmers Market and the Jean James Milan Farmers Market. This picture is of one of our Cherry trees budding out and looking like winter has finally given way to spring.
