03MAR2018
What a month this has been. Spring is coming quickly. The photo is of a recent ice storm we had that froze everything, including our water pipes in the kitchen and bathroom. Thing here on Crooked Beak has been getting busy as we ramp up for this growing season. We have added new equipment to our produce production with our purchase of a walk-in cooler. I found it at an auction recently, had a company tear it down for me while John was out of town and bring it out to the farm. The plan…yes plan… is to have it up and running by early May. Go ahead and laugh with me as we all know how plans go.
If I did not mention it before, we have found a new distributor for our produce and he is asking for much more than we grew last year. We will be putting in 2 acres of green peppers and poblano peppers in addition to our own supplies. We are also looking at adding an early crop such as beets or bok choy or something of the sort that will be completed by the time the peppers are ready. Hopefully this will relieve some of the pressure from us this way and increase our yields. We dropped off the seeds to the grower yesterday and received quite a few suggestions that will help us out this year. Much appreciated to him.
Our horses are doing wonderful despite all the rain we have received. Our barn, which stands on top of the hill, has conveniently flooded, leaving us no option but to leave the barn standing with muck in it. The priority this summer, other than the produce, is to build a dry lot for them. Not only will this help the flooding, it will help with the horrible cankers Mike and Mark get. Hopefully when I get back home the weather will cooperate a little better and we can get out there in the fields with the horses. We are so excited to get going this hear as things look a bit brighter than last year.