Buzzing of the Bees

Take a close look, the bees are there!

Wow, the bees have found the strawberries in the tunnel!
Gary says it's almost deafening.
We're very happy! The field berries are even seeing some bees. Yeeessss!

Apple Bloom

The Stayman Apples are really blooming this year! The only apple that's not blooming like crazy is the Mutsu, which we probably overcropped last year.
Hale loves to check out anything growing in the orchard.Strawberries made it through the cold night with a little help from the row cover and the tunnels. We'd love to see some early strawberries!!

Clean up

Spring 2010

As a farmer, I should believe that spring will come. But I'm always surprised when it does!
The new peach/nectarine block on the lower farm looks great as do the tunnel strawberries
- in fact there's a few blossoms here and there to tempt us.

Hale loves snow!

Finally! Some toys!

Hale,the vicious guard dog is bringing us all her prey.
It doesn't seem to matter how many real dog toys she gets,
she still brings the random sock as well!
Hale loves the snow and had a great xmas day opening presents
and going on a walk. She met Lola down the street and played like she was still a puppy.
Unfortunately, she's not a puppy (she's 10) so 2 days later
we had to take her to the Dr. for some pain relief!
She's all recovered and waiting for some more snow to fall...
Thanks, Dr. Marcus!

New Year Activities

It's time to mulch the strawberries. The ground is frozen,the wind has slowed,and it's going to rain or snow tomorrow. Perfect. Gary, Chris and Eric will probably finish today sometime. Luckily, we can use Trauger's mulching machine or it would be really, really, slow going!