New Leaf Organics

oh my, where does time fly?

It’s already June 8th ( i think), where has this Spring gone? I vaguely remember each day passing, marked only by nursing Ada and watering plants, in my mind. Clearly I must be doing some other things I am sure, or else I’d be seeing some major problems by now. Actually, all things told, the fields are starting to shape up. We’ve started picking our first strawberries of the season, asparagus is slowing down after a not so fabulous season, and peas, radishes, and more greens are on the way. There is definitely that day in the Spring (yesterday this season) when the crops you are growing begin to beat out the weeds and things start to come together. To me it is as if all the stars aline over our farm and I can breathe a sigh of relief. When vegetable fields are growing well, it could be argued there is nothing more beautiful. I suppose, as a veggie farmer I am a bit biased. But really, I’ll show some pics.

Since I’m feeling so positive tonight, I’ll keep going. Our farm has about a 1/2 an acre in perennial flower gardens. The gardens were part of the farm when I bought it, to some degree 10 years ago. Over the years we’ve had varying levels of success maintaining and adding to them, depending on what kind of help we had that year. This year, in hopes of simplifying my equation a little bit I decided it would be worth the money to hire it out. That right there could be the best decision I make all year long and so I am thoroughly enjoying it. Because I have to pass through the flower gardens on the way up the hill to the fields, instead of feeling totally overwhelmed at seeing the gardens get away from me, I get to feel so psyched that we’ve got these beautiful gardens being brought back to life. We’ve started doing our weekly bouquets once again to farmers market and to stores and it is pretty fabulous to pick from the gardens. Now of course, my mind is already reeling with notions of expansion of changes to be made to them. If only it was less expensive I could almost justify the plans. It is definitely a good idea not to think about the difference in pay you receive if you weed flowers verses what you make weeding vegetables. Clearly (my bank account would say) I followed the wrong path years ago when I fell in love with growing food.