Hello to 2019! Welcome back to our blog and new website. We have reformatted to include pages of recipes, information about us, our farm and our horses. This is a journey with much laughter and tears as we work towards our goals of self-sustainability, healthy lifestyles, some fitness ideas, and much, much more. Enjoy!

It is January and the beginning of the new season. I consider the Vegetable and Produce conference the season start because this is where we all come to discuss the past year’s growing season, the good and the bad, and what worked and what did not work. It is also a large networking system where we meet other growers, farmers, experts, and educators. January is when the seed catalogs start pouring into our mailboxes and we decide which new seed we will try this year. I love this time of year. It is exciting!

John and I are discussing how we will make changes to our fields. Learning from the last couple years, our irrigation system must be changed this year. We came across a couple ideas from our distributor and other growers that will most definitely improve our watering system. We are also contemplating changing our row distance. In the past we have allowed a large area between them to allow our equipment and horses in. We have cultivated between them in the past, but last year we decided to let the weeks grow and mow it down each week. Unfortunately, the rain prohibited us from entering the fields much of the year so this method was not the most effective. I also heard of another way to deter deer from our fields and we will try that also.