Seeds Have Arrived!

Seeds are starting to come in! We've already gotten our orders from Johnny's and FedCo, and we're still waiting for High Mowing. It's so exciting to see the boxes arriving!

Also, something I haven't mentioned is that we are going to have an intern for the first part of the summer! Her name is Alison and I met up with her on Saturday. She's hoping to start a CSA at her college and wanted to come check out how ours works, so we're excited to have her on board!

Overall things are running pretty smoothly at the farm. Signs are in the works and should be up down by the road and on the barn in a week or two. We should have t-shirts for sale pretty soon here too, and hopefully we'll be building tables and setting up our potting space in the barn as well. Things are coming along nicely.

Making Progress

I think it's only fair to begin this post by giving Dora the spot light... I feel like she has been under represented on this blog until now...

She and I started off Sunday by having some fun in the show while Ben was in the barn hard at work...

Over the past couple of days Ben and I tore up a dangerous part of the floor in the barn. There were large gaps in the floorboards that were covered in hay that we decided we'd rather not risk falling in. Luckily we were able to find replacement boards left over from when the horse stalls were put in... we hope to finish off this part of the floor in a week or so.

We also worked on the second floor of the barn sweeping and organizing... as you can see things were really dusty.

This is my"Golly it's dusty in here!" face...

And this is Ben's face covered in dust particles... check out those lashes...

Here is what the second floor looked like when we were finished with it... all the windows and doors that had been strewn all over the barn are now organized and in the same place... 

The barn is shaping up to be a really beautiful space...

Finding the Floor

Since Tuesday was Town Meeting Day, Ben and I took advantage of classes being canceled and worked on the farm all day. I thought about going to town meeting day, but Randino and Mama G went down to represent the Garner clan, or as we sometimes call ourselves, "The 1052 Crew"(1052 is our house number), so I felt like it was okay to stay home and get some work done instead...
We started off the morning with Apple Cheddar Cornmeal Muffins (a fantastic suggestion from Mr.Ben). There's nothing like freshly baked muffins and coffee before heading out into the cold.

The rest of the day was spent out in the barn as per usual, cleaning and finding lovely little treasures along the way. I found an old wire egg basket... and a beautiful glass piece that seems to have some purpose, what? We don't know....

Ben is the ring leader of the barn-sprucing project, and I have to commend him for that. Over the years it's collected trinkets from different families and friends, all of which are covered in dust and straw, waiting to be discovered. So Ben has been out there with his pitchfork and brawn uncovering what appears to be a floor...

While I'm excited to get the barn in tip top condition too, I find that I need a little more encouragement to get really psyched about moving around in the dust for more than a half hour at a time. Ben's a good sport and doesn't give me a hard time when I need to take a break to work on the seed order or other farm related things...

Sunny's out there too, stamping his feet in approval. We think he's just as excited about getting the barn uncluttered and full of fresh air and animals as we are!

I suppose that's probably the first time I've mentioned our hopes of having more animals... at the moment we're considering (and I really mean considering, nothing is even close to final yet) getting 3 pigs, a bunch of chickens, 3 geese (for my dad), and perhaps some guinea hens too. Ben and I are currently working on plans for each of those. We're really hoping we can find a way to make all this work because, in my opinion, farms cannot truly be sustainable unless they have animals to complete the nutrient cycles on the farm... Plus they're just really cute... Anyway, we're thinking it over and we'll keep you posted.