Luckily I planted more seeds before this snow.  Nothing compares to putting seeds in the earth, and watching clouds drop water on them.  Something invisible kicks in. 

In a constant effort to have produce as early as possible we built a mini hoop house in the garden with some greenhouse plastic and we are going to transplant tomatoes, corn, squash, watermelons, basil, eggplant, chard, and more out side next week.  The snow stretched it out somewhat so it drooping right now.  But I’m surprised it held up to that wet snow.  Anyway this will be our 50/50 crop.  If it lives we’re ahead, if it dies we’re not behind. 

Plus planted more lettuce, tat soi, and a bunch of other stuff in uncovered beds.  Plus we had almost %100 germination for all our pepper crops in the main greenhouse.

For those of you who were lucky enough to see Joel Salatin last night at the Lincoln Center, I hope you enjoyed his speech as much as I did.  I think he raised a lot of very good points and I hope his momentum only builds and adds strength to the local food movement.  I loved the way he pointed out the nonsense involved in food laws and inspired me to continue to try to return to an old world way of living; with the butcher, the baker, the brewer, the windmill maker, the farmer and the chef.

So i heard it was going to rain today so yesterday i planted some peas, raddish, beets, carrotts, lettuce, and onions; but i’m not seeing the rain yet.  Atleast the seeds are there waiting.

one for the rook, one for the crow, one to eat, one to grow

Shire CSA would like your seeds.  If you have any old seeds packages that you don’t think you’ll get around to planting let us do it for you.  We are interested in preserving old heirloom varieties especially so don’t through Grannie’s seeds out either.  We’d like to create a seed bank to help preserve and collect as many different varieties of plants as we can. Thanks, Luke

SMOOT Something Made Out Of Trash

We installed some steel supports for our covered beds yesterday.  These beds will be planted soon and the supports will hold fabric covers to keep off the frost and extend our season.  The supports are made from old wire spools that were going to be thrown away.  Something Made Out Of Trash, a.k.a. SMOOT.

This summer is going to be great.  We’re off to a great start and new seeds are sprouting everyday.