I look back at my last farm journal post in late April which really feels like last week. That  is how our life on the farm feels in the spring as our work and work load is so tied to the sun, warmth, and length of days.  As we approach the solstice and the longest day of they year we often find ourselves in the fields till 8 or 9pm weeding or thinning and some times as we leave to go cook dinner we stop and are amazed at all the healthy food growing and the beauty of good work.

Time  literally flies in the Spring. There is soo much to be done in the spring: the planting of thousands and thousands of plants, the irrigating, the cultivating (weeding), the harvesting and washing, deliveries, markets. We have our large summer planting out and growing, all the various eggplants, peppers, winter squash, summer squash, cucumbers, field tomatoes, celery, basil, flowers, okra, sweet potatoes, and more. The High tunnel is doing beautifully and all the hundreds of tomatoes in there are already flowering and getting trellised, it is a sight to behold, I hope to get a picture out to y'all soon. We will be spending this rainy cool day in  there pruning and suckering and trellising heirloom tomatoes.

In other sustainable farm news we are excited to have worked with Morgan Timber in Laporte who was able and willing to make us up about 500+ stakes out of local beetle kill wood for all of our stake trellised crops. Our new irrigation system is amazing and more or less works as designed. This new larger system will allow us to save time and money and grow better food for you. With all that saved time we will probably be able to go on vacation but will most likely find ourselves on hands and knees pulling bindweed.

I recently read a beautiful article by another young Ft. Collins farmer and it reminds me of why I absolutely love what I do, no matter how hard it is. It is in my blood, it just feels right. If I go back beyond my two sets of  amazing grandparents to my great grandparents we find beautiful farms in Indiana. Beyond them we see farms as well, our people come from the land and working the land and I feel as if I am finally having a reunion with my ancestry. It is a beautiful thing to feel so connected with your past while working everyday towards a better future not to mention a better tasting future.

You can read that article here and another of his great articles here

We couldn't do any of this without the support of our community where all this food goes, it is a humbling privilege to be able to grow food for you all. Thank you!

See you at Market,
Nic