February 2, 2010
Here are some fun photos of our winter
vacation. We had perfect weather and well-needed rest in Maui. It's so great to spend time with each other and have no
worries.
The greenhouse seeding
has begun. The tomatoes are growing with some bottom heat and the first bunching greens and cabbage are in the cool greenhouse.
I will be seeding every week from now until July. The tractors are getting their annual maintenance while the fields rest,
get rain and grow cover crops.
We made the crop plans and ordered the seeds. Mostly the same
as previous years except we are not going to grow any cherry tomatoes or white chard. We will mix in some white and more yellow
and pink into the rainbow chard. We are going to try potatoes. We also will try to grow more broccoli and basil. This
will be our 10th growing season!
The cover crops will grow all winter and
be plowed in the spring to build the soil. This winter crop is our gift back to the land in gratitude for all the wonderful
vegetables we get all summer and fall.
I just put in favorite photos of '09
for a new page. That's always fun to do. Even though the fire didn't affect the farm except for some helicopters overhead,
we had to evacuate our home for a week. It was challenging to keep farming, but the tomatoes had just come on in a big way
and that was more important than our inconvenience.
We have more t-shirts now in dark green, black and brown in all sizes.We added "Davenport, CA" to the logo
in the back since we love our little town! We got so much support from the community during the wildfire.
We give some shirts to our stores' wonderful produce departments, our workers, in the kids' birthday party
goody bags and clothe ourselves in our fun logo. They are also available at cost to everyone!
We
even have a retail outlet - Homegrown Surf shop in Davenport behind Whale City Bakery! Come say hi to Nef, check out the beautiful
locally made jewelry, buy shirts and maybe have a surf board made!
Here's a link to "Life on The Farm" radio show on KUSP, with our friends Andy and Julia from Mariquita
Farm.It's fun to hear them talking on the radio, and we can often relate to their topics.
