Remember a recent blog telling about a stroll through the field and seeing the flash of the bluebird??  Well, those serene moments are replace by YIKES!!  With the amazingly beautiiful spring, everything needs to be done at once!!  So it is full speed ahead.

Priority is given to getting the seven high tunnels ready and planted.  We are a long ways on those.  There are many steps to getting them ready but it is going well.  Cucumbers never like transitions so they always make me hold my breath.  Tomatoes love adventure so they thrive on new settings.  We are planting the secondary crops of cabbage, lettuce, spinach and kohlrabi along with the primary crops of tomatoes, cucumbers and pole beans. 

Field crops need to be planted as well.  However, we need to add the missing soil elements first.  This weekend, they arrived (all $20,000 dollars worth) so now field planting can go full speed ahead.  Our farm is mostly missing copper, zinc and sulfur so those are the main ones added.  The balance of soil elements allows the soil to open up and let soil life thrive.  When we plant, we are also adding an organic product called Soil Infusion, which not only has nutrition for the plant, such as uncooked kelp, but has the soil life spores.  This soil life feeds on our cover crops and works symbiotically with the plant to bring nutritional density to what we raise.

The first plantings of radishes, spinach and lettuce are coming up in the field so it is time to plant the next stages.  We are planting enough to accomodate the anticipated CSA membership.