Goings on on the Farm

It started raining again on Sunday night after we got the turnips and winter radishes seeded. We had a good week of tillage and weed control, such as it is with all this rain, before the rain set in. Sunday night brought a violent thunderstorm that took down a couple of trees and caused a few sleepless nights.

We are all working to acknowledge that we do live in the Upper Midwest, and to just cowboy up and deal with the heat and humidity and the rain. Sounds like our friends in the Twin Cities, Ames, and Des Moines have all had it a lot worse than we have. So we’ll take the heat and the humidity and make the best of it. A good straw hat helps.

We ended up short handed this week due to family emergencies and illnesses, so we are working hard to muddle through. Since it’s been too wet to work in the field all week, it hasn’t been so bad; Eric and Sarah and the two Bens have really hustled to make the harvest come together each day this week, giving Chris the space he needed to catch up on the office work that seems constantly to loom.