Farmer's Almanac

 

We had a beautiful Mother's Day morning down in the garden

A couple of weekends ago.  

Lots of good food, laughter and celebration.

The gardens looked great and much has happened since we were down there.  

Heartwood Farms has been to the Farmer's Market in Durango twice.

The soil in many of the beds has been amended.

Beets, onions, onions and more onions have been planted.

Four kinds of lettuce are growing.

Also planted since then are green beans, peas, melons, tomatoes, cucumbers, spinach, brocoli, garlic scallions, cooking greens, radishes and 2 kinds of cabbage.

The upper garden is two thirds of the way planted.

Lettuce will be ready to harvest in 3 weeks.

The 450 strawberry plants that got planted are doing well.

The fruit trees are leafing out.

The crab apple trees are blooming.                                                           

There are 9 baby goats.  All girls except for Cassanova the only billy.

The bees are doing what bees do.

Birds are nesting in the bird houses.

The interns now have running water.

Pam has found us a handicap van with a lift to 

transport produce and people to the markets and

make deliveries for $100.  Thank you PAM!

Dixie has goat milk for sale in the store.

1 QT for $2.50

1/2 Gal for $4

1 Gal for $8

Please bring clean jars back to the store so she can reuse them.

There will also be some of Dixie's raw herb cheve made from milk from her goats and herbs from Heartwood!

They will be planting 8,000 potatoes over the next couple of days.  If you have a spare hour or two please show up at the garden Thursday or Friday and drop some potatoes in.  It's easy, some of the older kids could definatley do it.  

Things are moving right along at Heartwood Farms where all the trees are strong, the bees are good looking and the amount of potatoes that need to be planted in way above average!