It has been awhile since I've posted an update about the farm and while it has been our slowest winter yet, there has been a big thing happening...
If you were a CSA member that picked up your share at the farm last year, you might have noticed the For Sale signs on the corners of the property that went up last fall. If not, here is the announcement that the farm is indeed for sale. Seth and I live and operate the farm on the property, however we are not the owners of it. We knew there was a possibility that this would happen, and so it was no surprise.
There are several possible outcomes. Two we believe are most likely are:
- Only certain parcels of the property sell, and we stay on the main parcel of land where the house and the majority of the farmable land is located. The farm would then buy that piece of land and we would be here permanently.
- The entire farm sells and we move else where.
Having said that, until the farm officially sells, we are keeping operations running as normal. I have not posted CSA information for 2014 yet because there is in offer on the farm at the moment and we want to see what happens with that before we make any big plans. If the offer does not go through, we will do a monthly CSA program at the farm only starting in May until we have more news. My hope is that we can operate the program similar to previous years, but I cannot really say yet if that will be a possibility.
I hope by early this spring we'll know more about our CSA and farmer's markets. So, stay tuned and bear with us these next few months as we go through this process. I will post another update as soon as we know anything official.
In the mean time, here are some photos from our winter:
Late last fall- we started harvesting the first of our broccoli.
Seth washing carrots in December for market.
We were able to escape for a late honeymoon to Playa del Carmen, Mexico in mid- November. Not sure why we agreed to taking this photo, but it makes for a good memory:)
Our little goats remain as precious as ever. Here Clifton is showing off that he's king of the mountain.
For Christmas we went to Jackson Hole, Wyoming to visit family. What a gorgeous place.
January brought us some chilly weather, but some gorgeous sunrises.
Some windy weather blew over a section of the goat's fence- they always love to come on the porch when they get out (after raiding the food bin first, of course).
Our compost was delivered last week. I'm always amazed by the unloading process. I mean, the back wheels of the truck are off the ground!
I did get caught for a few hours in the "Snowpocalypse" in Atlanta while doing some restaurant deliveries last Tuesday, but fortunately made it back safely and enjoyed the snow at the farm.
Vegetables are amazing- here are our collards covered in snow. They survived single digit temperatures and snow! We were able to harvest 45 pounds yesterday.
Fun in the snow- January 29th.
We started a new (for us anyway) technique to seed starting: soil blocks. The perks of soil blocks are that the seedlings don't go through transplant shock when planted in the ground. They also do not get root bound because the air acts as a barrier to the roots and they stop growing until they're planted in more soil.
Little lettuce seeds germinating. They're pelleted-which is the white coating. Makes planting seeds a lot faster and easier. It took me almost double the time to plant non-pelleted lettuce seeds as it did to plant these guys.
This week were are doing a lot of planting- mainly seedlings and filling our high tunnels. We planted carrots Monday and started lettuce, fennel, and kale seedlings. Today, Seth is working on getting another high tunnel ready for planting.
We're staying busy and trying to get things ready for spring as we await the decision on the sale of the farm. Hopefully I will have some good news in the next couple of weeks!
