Good news, bad news. Bad news first: Lake Divide Farm won't be at market this week. Never fear, there was no catastrophe and we will be back in two weeks. Why won't we be there? Well that is the good news! It is because we are off broadening our horizons at the Michigan Small Farm Conference in Traverse City. All in hopes of growing better food better and becoming more conscientious and effective stewards.
If I aim to keep you in vegetables all year long, I have a lot of learning to do about winter growing. The conference is getting me off to a good start with a whole day full of discussion and presentation on the topic. I will tell you what I learned the first day next time!
If I aim to keep you in vegetables all year long, I have a lot of learning to do about winter growing. The conference is getting me off to a good start with a whole day full of discussion and presentation on the topic. I will tell you what I learned the first day next time!
The tractor trailer needed a little help dropping off the container. Luckily, we have a tractor that was big enough to help with the job! Our Case 695 to the rescue!
Meanwhile, other farm boulders are slowly getting pushed up the hill. Our shipping container was delivered and the driver was able to put it exactly where we wanted it to go. And we finished and placed our seed order. We solidified our greenhouse plans and the frame will be getting shipped early next week. Soon we will be out there wailing on ground posts and wrestling with steel pipe, building the place where the majority of our produce will begin is path at Lake Divide.
This week, I also completed the general field plans for the coming season. This is just the start of my planstravaganza! One of my jobs in the winter is to make a clear enough outline of the things to come so that Summer Helen doesn't have to make a lot of decisions. The goal is to mentally walk through the activities that will happen this season and make sure that Summer Helen will have all the tools and information needed to make the best choices. Now I will decide how soon the weed the carrots after they are seeded. And how I will deal with the onslaught of critters that will also want to enjoy our vegetables. We will make contingency plans for possible missteps. We will make signs, think of recipes, streamline data entry, and the mailmerge. We will repair our equipment and fabricate new equipment. All this and more so in the flurry of the the summer fury, all she has to do is keep her head down and work, plodding (or sprinting) along the path carefully laid by Winter Helen, prioritizing based on predetermined quantifiers. I am so excited to be doing that now. To finally be laying the groundwork of our life farm. Of course, in order for the season to be a true experience, some off script things must happen. And cheesily enough, I am excited for that too.
We are all writing the stories that make our lives. No time not to love any of it.
This week, I also completed the general field plans for the coming season. This is just the start of my planstravaganza! One of my jobs in the winter is to make a clear enough outline of the things to come so that Summer Helen doesn't have to make a lot of decisions. The goal is to mentally walk through the activities that will happen this season and make sure that Summer Helen will have all the tools and information needed to make the best choices. Now I will decide how soon the weed the carrots after they are seeded. And how I will deal with the onslaught of critters that will also want to enjoy our vegetables. We will make contingency plans for possible missteps. We will make signs, think of recipes, streamline data entry, and the mailmerge. We will repair our equipment and fabricate new equipment. All this and more so in the flurry of the the summer fury, all she has to do is keep her head down and work, plodding (or sprinting) along the path carefully laid by Winter Helen, prioritizing based on predetermined quantifiers. I am so excited to be doing that now. To finally be laying the groundwork of our life farm. Of course, in order for the season to be a true experience, some off script things must happen. And cheesily enough, I am excited for that too.
We are all writing the stories that make our lives. No time not to love any of it.
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