New Farm Hand

Our niece, Carmelle, arrived this past weekend for a month long stay to help on the farm. She flew in from Colorado, and we are very excited to have her here, as we don’t get to see her too often. (If any of our other nieces and nephews are reading this, we would be excited to have you come, too, no matter how often we get to see you.) We are going to do our best to fill her time with all kinds of farm activity and see if we can peak her interest in agriculture (no pressure, though!).

There was some other excitement this week, in the start of a long awaited project: a new packing shed/storage pole barn. We’ve been planning to build a packing shed (a place to wash, pack and store the vegetables) since we moved here and it has begun! This week, the site was cleared and is being prepared. It will be a few more weeks before the building starts to go up, but is scheduled to be completed by mid September. We’ll work on the build out of the inside, which will make it a long term project.

Around the farm, we finished the garlic harvest, planted out more lettuce, seeded more crops for fall and have started harvesting plums and potatoes. The field cucumbers are starting to produce now and the field beans aren’t far behind. There has been some heat this week, with a few of the warm nights that really help things grow. The farm is moving, full steam ahead!