Welcome To Pie Friday!

This year we invite you to participate in the 2012 season by following our new blog! We will keep you posted on what's going on around the farm, featuring stories, pictures, and more brought to you by the Horton crew.

The blog's title,'Pie Friday', is in reference to our Friday tradition of sharing something sweet while we review and reflect on the week's work. Each crew member has the space to 'check-in' about their experience, pose an idea or question, or simply listen and eat pie. As tradition goes, the person speaking finishes their check-in by saying 'check'. It is in this spirit of sharing that we hope you join us this season, over a slice of virtual pie, to be a part of the Horton Road crew.

Check.

Monday, March 12, 2012

Firsts....

Ashley, Lisa and I have been keeping busy on Monday afternoons sowing the seeds of our first lettuce, broccoli, green onion, chard and celery crops into flats that grow for some time in the greenhouse.  We've also been digging out beds in our other greenhouses in preperation for our first salad greens.  Unlike adult and baby lettuces, our salad greens are directly sowed into the bed by Debra.  This is done beause it makes sense in terms of harvesting, and it is something Debra enjoys.   

The first beds of salad greens in Greenhouse #2


Our first flats of baby lettuce

Broccoli cotyledons



Last week we got some snow that left a white blanket over the fields, for a few hours at least!



Our garlic, shooting upward, shouting out for Spring!

Aside from the seed sowing, greenhouse digging, soil mix making, and lots of clean up, planning, and computer work, we've been enjoying the gradual return of spring and anticipate the arrival of our new apprentice crew in April!

Check.

-Rachael


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