Greetings from Dancing Hen Farm! Welcome to March!
We will be doing buying club deliveries this weekend. Ordering is now open and will close Thursday
at 5 am. We are featuring eggs and pork
and still have some storage crops available.
How about this crazy weather! 60's today and tomorrow, followed by the
threat of more severe storms and then highs in the 30's and 40's. I have heard a predicted low in the single
digits for Friday night! Hold on, the
Pennsylvania roller coaster weather is on the run again!
Farmer Don and I spent this past weekend out of town. Each winter we try and get away for a bit of
relaxation and for our annual intensive farm business meeting. This year we ventured to Rhode Island to explore
and visit with some family. Farmer Don
even took off his shoes and waded into the
ocean. I'll post some pictures to
Facebook and our blog later.
Before we left on vacation, Farmer Don spent a bit of time
working in the greenhouse and field. The
warm weather allowed him to work a bed here by the house and plant some
spinach. We are hoping to have a harvest
from these beds later in March or April.
He also planted a small planting of radishes in our unheated
greenhouse. If the weather does not get
too hot, we will hopefully have some radishes to harvest in 4 to 6 weeks. We will keep you posted on how these early
crops are progressing. Farmer Don tells
me the radishes are already starting to germinate! I have not had a chance to check out garlic,
but I am thinking this warm weather probably has it pushing through the
ground.
Speaking of planting, March marks the start of our "gear
up" for the upcoming growing season.
Soon our seed house will be filled with flats and flats plants, which
eventually will be planted out into our fields.
Farmer Don is busy putting the finishes touches on his new germination
chamber and his new wood heated greenhouse nursery is holding heat well, even
without the woodstove burning. Again, I
will keep you posted on how things are growing.
I think I will end here.
I still have dishes to clean up, dogs to walk and in all honesty, I am
ready to head to bed!
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