Farm Happenings

Weather: In this sort of cold, I feel grateful to have no livestock on the farm. Livestock in this weather means frozen waterers and difficult feeding; some folks I have talked to recently are actually calving in this January freeze. The only things I have to keep warm are rosemary and stored roots, which just isn’t that bad. Unfortunately, crops in our unheated greenhouses have been hurt by this early deep freeze; it remains unclear how well they will recover. Last year, and the year before that, and the year before that, we had spinach to harvest in the first week of January, but no market for it. I’m hoping that this weather will break, and the spinach will come back.

What We Did: The snow around Christmas kept Ben and Sarah home several days, so mostly we focused on staying caught up on packing roots and other urgent tasks. We did find time to take stock of our winter projects, and took a complete inventory of our seeds.

Comings and Goings: Chris stayed at home with Oliver and Isabel for the holidays, and had quite a nice time. Not much coming or going really, which was a nice change.