It’s the winter solstice today, with the longest shadows and the shortest day of the year. And although it’s only December, to me the solstice always means the beginning of the end of winter. Even though the weather is going to stay cold for much, much longer, today is the shortest and darkest that the days are going to get. It’s only getting sunnier from here on out, which means the growing season will be upon us before we know it! As the new year gets closer, we’re getting excited for the season ahead. 2018 will be our first season as an operating farm, which comes with a certain amount...
Getting the fence up
It’s beginning to feel a lot like winter with snow over the weekend and temperatures not topping freezing tomorrow. I’m thinking fondly of those unseasonably lovely days just after Thanksgiving with highs in the 60s! With the end of the year just around the corner, we’re at last starting to see an end in sight for all of the work we planned for the fall. We are on the last stage of the deer fence installation- putting the actual fencing in- and like almost everything else we’ve tackled over the last few months, it is more time-consuming than expected. Watching the how-to videos, it looked like a simple process of...