Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Cool in Cleveland?


My husband claims that I am not cool. He goes as far to say that "There is not even enough cool in a Harley to make you cool." And, I fear, he is not alone in this opinion. There have been plenty of times in my life when I bottomed out the "cool-meter," but lets not talk about high school Star Trek conventions and memorizing first air dates for original episodes in their star date equivalents! Let's pretend that was someone else... (I have perhaps shared to much!)

So imagine my surprise when I was listed in Cool Cleveland this week in there "Emissions from the Blogsphere" (scroll way down...) But then flame throwers are always cool! I'll need to get a video of my husband flaming at night and post that, talk about cool! My hubby may claim that it is he who wields the flame thrower while I man-handle the propane tank (not nearly as cool) but I'll take my cool where I can get it...

Chicks on the move...


AW... Aren't they cute?

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Monday, June 16, 2008

500 year flood...

Today keep your thoughts with the farmers in Iowa. 2 million acres of soybeans and 1.3 million acres of corn are destroyed. And though some of it will be replanted (depending on how well the ground dries) with those acres of crops are the livelihoods of family farmers. People who thought this would be a good year and stretched their resources to earn the high prices corn will draw this year...


Remind me not to complain about the weather (at least not to much) this year...

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Flame weeding

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Weeding with flame the only way to go... One of our new toys...
Take a look at this video... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14DVs6alR-Q With our little torch we weeded inbetween all our rows in our small field in a little over an hour. With a hoe or our small walk behind tiller it would have taken a day...

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Hold on market for a while...


This weather has been pretty annoying to us this year. The picture is of bolting lettuce...

Just when things were starting to grow a heat wave hit and all of our nice spring stuff is done. Our radishes turned to disgusting pithy hollow balls, our broccoli rabb bolted, and lettuce turned bitter. The good news is the turnips, beets, squash, beans, and the like seem to be loving it, not to mention the tomatoes and peppers!

There will be lots of yummy food this year, but not this weekend. So we have decided to stop doing market for a few weeks. This will give our stuff a chance to grow a little more without us having to pick baby stuff for market and fearing that our members will get short shifted their first week.
Speaking of the first CSA week. We will be announcing it to an email to our members this weekend! It will be really soon, but not next week. Our season may start a little slow, but before long their will be more produce then they know what to do with!

We are seriously eyeing a nice big hoop house which will give us a place to grow earlier crops for everyone next year! But we know that our season will be a good one,and we thank all our members for hanging in with us...

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

New chicks came in...

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Wow, do chicks gro w fast... This is a diffrence of just two weeks in age. The first was born may 28, the other June 10... They sure look cutter when they are babies. One of the joys of farming is to get that 7:00 am call from the post office, "Your chicks are here!" Then it is anticipation until you can make it there, anticipation and a little fear that they will not all be OK. Until you get one you find it hard to belive the post office can safley ship a box of tiny day old chicks, but they have beendoing so for over 100 years and no one else (fed ex-ups) will take live animals. One of these days we will have to order a box bees.... they come in a wood box with screen sides so you can get a good look at the bees, I doubt the ladies at the post office would find them as cute or be as happy to get the box for me....

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Monday, June 9, 2008