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The ranunculus are just getting started and they sure are a sight for sore eyes!
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What's happening on the farm right now?
We've been doing a fair bit of re-planting since I last wrote. Even though we covered our kale and chard, they were pretty much frozen to the ground a couple of weeks ago when we had the day and night of 10 degrees, howling winds and snow. Some of them have recovered and are growing back, but others, we had to replant. There was definitely some panic buying of replacement plants, but we are back to having three full beds of greens as I write and that feels good.
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We triple covered the ranunculus and strung them with Christmas tree lights and they made it through just fine, as did the double-covered strawberries.Thank goodness!
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Though our crops mostly made it through that severe and prolonged cold, it slowed them down in term of growing. The ranunculus are just starting to bloom and the spinach and lettuce mix that we hoped to have for this coming Saturday is still a week or two away. All this to say, that we are NOT going to open the online store this week BUT we WILL BE at the North Asheville Tailgate Market on Saturday. Sadly, we just don't have enough quantity and diversity of produce and flowers to open the store. I don't think there are many folks out there who want $15 worth of radishes, even if they are delicious.
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At market on Saturday, we will have limited amounts of ranunculus, anemones and mixed bouquets, also of bunched kale and bags of mixed baby kale. We will have a lot of radishes, culinary herb starts and early spring starts of kale, chard, broccoli, cabbage, and lettuce. Cross your fingers for some warmer sunnier weather so we'll have more produce for next week.
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We have been planting trees along Bald Creek. The tubes in the photo below are protecting a mix of river birches and silky and red twig dogwoods. How those daffodils got there I don't know. Across the creek you can see our neighbors field, bedded up, covered in plastic and ready to plant with tomatoes.
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Some of our apprentices have arrived. Below Sam, Sophia (from Alabama) and Merida (from Florida) are planting early spring flowers with lots of jokes and laughter. We are still looking for two more jolly crew members, so if you know someone awesome, send them our way.
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The strawberries have made a great comeback from the deer damage. The bees were all over them this afternoon, gathering nectar and pollen and pollinating all the little flowers as they went. The bright orange blob you see on the bee's legs is pollen she has gathered into her leg sacs.
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Your farmers, Vanessa and Alex
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Love the flowers. Honor the vegetables. Let the weeds go!
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- Cheri Huber and Ashwini Narayanan
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