The Season Has Officially Begun!

Although there really is no beginning or end to the farming season, there is, undoubtedbly, a sense of rebirth as winter fades into spring. This year our goal was to plant peas on Presidents' Day, and we officially missed our target at both Alm Hill and 21 Acres by one day. So, I guess that we planted peas the day after President's Day--February 17th. We are lucky in that we've had two weeks of decent temperatures and no rain. It is tempting to get out there and plant some salad and radishes and turnips and spinach and other early season varieties.

All of the greenhouses at all of the farms are active, with peas, fava beans, radishes, turnips, salad, spinach, carrots, and beets in the ground and thousand and thousands of transplants from a huge variety of crops growing in trays on tables.

The raspberries are pruned and tied up. Next on the list is the blueberries and blackberries. We'll start putting tunnels up over the berries this week to encourage early growth, and will interplant quick crops between the berry rows.