Your greens this week are from Cara and Aaron at Plowbreak Farm here in Hector. They let us glean some of their greens they had left.

We have almost reached the "end" of this farming season. The next season starts slowly this coming week with the first few trays of seeds being planted. But March is actually very quiet on the farm. The greenhouse gets filled quickly, but little else is going on and we can take a breath before the ground warms up and dries out in April.

 

Expected harvest for this week (choose 6):

salad mix (organic, from Plowbreak Farm)

celeriac 

parsnips

daikon radishes

watermelon radishes

acorn squash (conventional, from Silver Queen Farm)

onions

potatoes (sustainably-grown from Living Acres Farm)
carrots (from Main Street Farm)
kale

beets(from Main Street Farm)

flour

 

 

 

The chickens are really not happy with this snow. They don't mind the cold but they refuse to go outside while snow is on the ground. We wanted to move them to a different hoophouse for the next few weeks so they could have some fresh ground to scratch at. But we can't do hardly anything outside right now with so much snow on the ground; much less, move two chicken coops. And it seems there is more snow in the forecast this week. Oh well!

The only colorful thing on the farm right now is Luna in her winter coat.

Expected harvest for this week (choose 6):

some kind of salad green, hopefully

celeriac 

parsnips

daikon radishes

watermelon radishes

butternut squash (non-organic, from Silver Queen Farm)

acorn squash (non-organic, from Silver Queen Farm)

onions

shallots

garlic

potatoes (sustainably-grown from Living Acres Farm)
carrots
kale

beets

 

Apparently we don't get enough farming in our day jobs because we enjoy playing a farming game called Agricola in our leisure time.

This is what we were doing around midnight Tuesday night - clearing the snow from our hoophouses so they would not collapse under the weight of the snow overnight. That was quite a crazy storm for us. It was the biggest snowstorm we have had since we moved here in 2006.

Expected harvest for this week (choose 6):

some kind of salad green, hopefully

celeriac 

parsnips

daikon radishes

watermelon radishes

butternut squash (non-organic, from Silver Queen Farm)

acorn squash (non-organic, from Silver Queen Farm)

onions

shallots

garlic

potatoes (sustainably-grown from Living Acres Farm)
carrots
kale

beets