June

Finally, here I am in June.... As always June is a whirlwind. Too much to do, too little time. We often find ourselves saying we wish we could stop time and get an extra day in the week. I've also had a series of low level illness that aren't, thankfully, that debilitating, but just there to annoy me and slow me down. One after another. Ok, enough complaining about that. We're so swamped at the farm. It is the time of year that we do every possible that happens at the farm - starting seedlings, direct seeding, transplanting, plowing, weeding, harvesting, going to markets, organizing the CSA.... And as the official kick off of the summer we also find ourselves trying to get to social events. Sorry friends, but we are really only making it to the big time events. For example - Congratulations to Rachel Gall & Jay Wolf on their solstice wedding!!! They are such super people and also know so many great folks, I was happy to be able to make it there to celebrate with them, even if we couldn't go into the wee hours. (Or for that matter twilight hours!)

Not much new on the cow front. Patches was bred on Mother's Day weekend and so far, no signs of heat! So hopefully she's pregnant. Our apprentices have learned to milk and we had about 4 or 5 of us taking turns. Now that the crew and Dan are harvesting 3 days a week, I am milking those 3 days. I'm happy to have more time with Patches. Bea has been a champ, hanging out with me while I milk - at least for the first part. Thankfully when I am finishing Dan is back at the barn washing veg or Bea can hang out with Marion, Maya and Solana who are camping out at the farm and helping out. Maya is just about 5, Solana just 2 months younger than Bea, so she is really in 7th heaven having girls to play with at the farm most of the time. We love having John, Marion and the girls here. Although I'm already dreading Bea's reaction when they leave in a few weeks! (Mine, too!)