what pete brought in to show me

This morning, Pete brought these baby vegetables in
to show me. Everything is coming. At the bottom is a baby beet. in the middle
is a baby snap pea. At the top are baby carrots.

May 17th

Pete is returning back down the isle, cultivating the strawberries.

More cultivating of the strawberries. Lots of blossoms!

 Beth and Freddie planting lettuce

 Sarah planting with Beth and Freddie

Ian got the maze done for the CSA and farm card
members farm picnic on this Sunday, May 19th.
The children are going to love it!

Here is another shot in the middle of the maze

Here is Leigh, on our trip to the orchard.

The orcahrd blossoms are beautiful.
Pete says if we avoid frost we will have a great apple crop.

Apples are Blooming

Robin with Apple Blossoms

When I was at the farm during the Earth-Day Cleanup, I noticed that the view towards the mountains looked different. The apple trees were gone!

Robin said the trees were aging and were not producing as much as trees in their prime. You may remember that last season the farm had no apples. This was because the apple trees were in a low lying area and got hit by the frost that settled into low lying areas last spring. So, the decision was made to remove them and use the land for other crops.

But don't despair -- Pete has leased apple trees in a small orchard nearby and is taking good care of them. Those trees are situated higher up and are closer to their prime years. So, with luck we will have apples again this year.

Robin and I took a short drive to the apple orchard on Friday. It was raining slightly so the pictures are not very dramatic, but at least you can see the lovely blossoms. If you click on the pictures, you can see them full size.

Robin enjoying the trees

A nice row

another nice row

More trees

My weather forecast is saying "freeze warning in effect from 2 am to 8 am EDT Tuesday" so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that nothing is lost on the farm.

If you're a CSA card member you should have gotten a letter about the picnic on Sunday May 19th. See everyone there!

--Leigh

May 4th- Pete got the potatoes in today.
Our members picnic for Taliaferro Farms CSA members  and Taliaferro Farm farm card members will be on Sunday May 19th 2013 from 11:00-2:00.  It's a great time!

Wednesday, May 1st!  Yay!

Here are some of Sarah's new batch of chickens.

Here are some more babies.

 

Lots of greens coming up beautifully in the greenhouse.

 

The garlic is coming up beautifully too!



 

The seed potatoes came today. They cost a good chunk of change,
over $3000.00 just for the seed potatoes.
 

Spring seems to be here! 

Renewed Blog Writing:

Hello everyone! There are 2 people writing for the blog this season -- Robin [Taliaferro] and Leigh [CSA member]. This is Leigh writing today. (In case you like to put faces with names, Robin and I are both in one of the road clean up photos below.) We hope to resurrect this blog and talk more about the farm.

Renewed Growing Season:

I took a photo last week and another of the same field this week. Check out the difference:

1 week ago ~ April 21

Today ~ April 28 (it was a little dark when I took this picture sorry)

I was so excited to see the little shoots coming out of the ground. Just wait -- in a few weeks we'll be able to eat these...whatever they are! I'm not really a gardener so I don't recognize things until they get bigger.

I hope to put new photos up every week or so and write about things I see at the farm. Thankfully the days are getting longer so I should have a better chance to take photos before it gets too dark.

--Leigh

Planting has started on the farm. Pete has greens in the field as well as shell peas and snap peas. He also has greens planted in the green houses for transplanting later. Sarah is expecting her first batch of chickens this week and is making the finishing touches on the brooding houses. We need some warm weather!
Robin