The farm is "put to bed" for the season!

As of Wednesday, the farm is considered officially "put to bed" for the season.  Tim and Larry worked hard to get the carrots and onions that we are trying to overwinter, mulched with leaves and weighted down with extra sandbags for the long winter's nap.  We covered the most mature row of blackberries with a double layer of row cover to prep them for winter also.  I decided not to cover the second row as it wasn't as far along as the first row.  So we will see how much difference the covering makes.  Yet another farming experiment.

Just because the field is put to bed for the winter doesn't mean that we are lazing around!  Much planning and ordering and selling of shares will be done over winter.  Two trade shows to attend and 1 additional education session to go.  We will be spending quite a bit of time researching which types and varieties of vegetables to grow.  We will be expanding next year’s garden area by more than double.  We will also be researching new ways to create a natural energy flow into the plants.  More to come on this topic.

The seed ordering will commence right after the first of the year.  New tools and equipment will be added, if necessary early in the spring.  We will also be spending quite a bit of time lining up our volunteers and work shares to allow for the expansion to occur.  We are considering adding a livestock share of meat chickens.  The egg share will continue same as last year.  We may even offer some grass fed beef and Snowville Creamery milk dairy share as an option also.   Many decisions to yet to be made. 

Thanksgiving has come and gone already.  Hard to believe how fast time passes!  Christmas will soon be a memory.  Not a lack of things to do that is for certain!