New poster
Uncle Geoff designed a beautiful new poster for the CSA!! Thank you Uncle Geoff!!!!! Thank you to all the beautiful and very photogenic CSAers for letting me take your picture!!
Blog : March 2009
Going from zero to 60
This time of year, we get busy in a hurry -- starting seedlings, turning on greenhouses, planting tomatoes, getting organized and cleaned up. And today was a glorious day -- 50 degrees and sunny! Here is me working outside in a tee shirt, and of course making funny faces for the camera with this kids. This pose was our strong muscle pose.
Inside the greenhouses, it was even warmer, just from the sun. So we got to work weeding! That's right weeding, in March, in Vermont.
Henry weeding in bare feet in the greenhouse.
Wavy weeding in a tank top in the greenhouse.
Even though we still have plenty of snow on the ground, we are getting ready for spring!
Rivers and dams
Henry and Wavy worked this afternoon creating river systems in the mud by the greenhouse so that the water would drain and not into the greenhouses.
It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it!!
Crazy
Old Shaw Farm, Circa 1895
Our friend and CSA member, Bill Graves, told me about this website put together by the folks at the University of Vermont. They are building a data base of what places used to look like in Vermont, and they are inviting people to submit photos of what these places look like now. Here is a link to one of the Peacham pages with some old photos of our place.
I have never felt like this is "our" place. Instead, I have often felt like we are just visitors here on this farm for a generation, or maybe two if the kids want to stick around. And these photos certainly reinforce that sense.
Chicken CSA from the Zschaus!
Every year people ask us if we have chickens to sell as well as our vegetables. We don't do chickens, but our good friends the Zschaus do, up in Danville. We have been buying meat birds from Kurt, Tracy, Tommy, and Maggie, for the last four years, and they are very yummy, locally raised and butchered, and naturally and humanely treated.
From left: Tommy, Kurt, Tracy, and Maggie
This year the Zschaus are ramping up their chicken production a bit and they are offering a chicken CSA in conjunction with our veggie distributions. This is their flyer and order form. Get in touch with them for some tasty poultry!
When did my children grow up?
Wavy came got home off the bus from school the other day and came out to the greenhouse because she wanted to help me seed trays.
And while we were working, she explained how at school her class went out for a snowshoe on the nature trail behind the school, and they found animals tracks in the snow, and did I know that Pluto wasn't a planet anymore, and could we go get some science book she wants from the Library. Seriously, when did these guys become big kids? They use to just be babies.
At least she still needs to use an overturned produce tub to reach the top of the greenhouse benches easily.
Seedlings up
This is a photo that Henry took of the tomato seedlings. They'll stay in the basement for a few weeks, until the sun gets stronger and the weather gets a bit warmer, then we'll move them out to the greenhouse. Sun golds!!
