Sunday, June 19, 2011

Baby Tomatoes, Baby Chicks, and Baby Apples

Wow, it's been quite some time since I last updated! Thanks for sticking with us through these busy few weeks. There have been a number of projects in the works.


In case you were waiting with bated breath, I'm happy to report that the weather did clear up and we got the entire half-acre upper field planted. By my rough estimate, there are now close to 2000 tomato, pepper, eggplant, and basil starts in that field. Wowza! Our current project is driving metal stakes into the tomato beds, along which we will hang twine to support the plants as they grow and bear heavy fruit. We will also put in drip tubes for irrigation.




These here cuties arrived a couple of weeks ago. We are now the proud caretakers of 100 Rhode Island Red chicks. I took these photos when they were just a few days old; in the meantime they have about doubled in size. When we introduced the day-olds into the pen that Omar built for them, we had to take on the role of mother hens, gently dipping their beaks into water to show them how to drink.



Our other recent farm hijinks have included thinning young apples (from approximately five in a cluster, down to two), watering plants (it's actually getting pretty hot and dry around here), and flame-weeding (trust me, it looks pretty hard-core).

At the farmstand, we're starting to get some reaaally nice summer stone fruit (think juicy cherries, peaches, apricots) as well as berries from farms in neighboring Solano and Sonoma counties. If you're in the area, stop by next weekend for a treat!

Stay tuned for...baby turkeys?!

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