Our latest harvest from the farm: broccoli, spinach, kale, & collards. All were started from seed. We had to pull several spinach plants as they were starting to bolt. Despite that, they made a tasty salad. The kale went into a delicious lentil soup. Yum!

Kale, collards, and spinach

The kale and spinach have really taken off. The kale so much so we had to transplant some and give away others to our neighbors.

Success! Dried Edamame (soy bean) from the bulk dried foods section sprout. We can finally plant rows and rows of the stuff economically.

The broccoli are already beginning to form heads!

This year we have been on the look out for more economical sources of certain seeds. Edamame (soy beans) have been one of those seeds that are extremely expensive given the few seeds that come in a pack. A possible solution is to raid the bulk dried foods section at Whole Foods. Before we give up precious row space to this experiment, we are testing a few for germination.

The first potato has broken the surface! This great weather has been yielding lots of early surprises!

When we went over today the perennial plots were being plowed!  It looked like a slow an laborious process even with a tractor.  A lot of work has been put into bringing the soil back to something resembling farmland.  We can’t wait to get dug in.

Today we were very brave and planted corn AND tomatoes.  The corn is a little early, but looking the forecast for the next week we thought it worth the risk.

The three Black Prince tomatoes we planted today have the luxury of water tents to protect them.  According to the packaging, it should protect the plants to near freezing temperatures at night.  Since we have many other plants in the stables, this too seemed worth the risk.