Rock & Roll Farm

Wednesday! May 25 2005 // 9:43 pm // permalink

Any way you slice it

Most of what we’re doing now is weeding. I spent the entire day on my knees yesterday. It seems like I am always on the ground with face nearly in the dirt. Over the winter we were discussing what it would be like to work in an orchard, reaching for the heavens all day. I mentioned this to a coworker last week and with a smirk he said, “yeah, I bet that wouldn’t get old, too.”

Today we planted a few rows to corn. It’s been a Wednesday thing for the last few weeks. Mondays we do the arugula and spicy greens. Last week we planted the last greenhouse to tomatoes, that brings the total to four. The peas and beans are getting big, so trellises have been put up. The asparagus is coming in like crazy. The strawberries are small and green. The swallows are back, leaves are on the trees, and weeds are taking over every inch of dirt. There’s no turning back.

In one week we begin the distribution for the CSA. The first share will be something like, lettuce, parsnips, potatoes, asparagus and a couple other things I’m not sure of yet. We also start going to the Ann Arbor Farmers’ Market next week. This, I am extremely excited about. Nearly all my social interaction is at the farm. Now I’ll get to be out in public. I wonder if I remember how.

Wednesday! May 11 2005 // 7:24 pm // permalink

Guter Laden hier.

This is the sign out in front of the farm. It is a color adaptation of the logo. Check the farm photos section for photos of some other signs I painted for the farm.

In other news, I’m getting a snake and learning German. Not in that order.

Oh, and in general the farm is going okay. It has sort of been raining, a little. We got a new worker this week, Eileen, who is really diving in head first. It’s nice to have another set of hands, especially such hard working ones. We’re catching up but still not out of the woods.

More corn and potato planting this week. Also we transplanted some brassicas into the field and finished planting the greenhouses to tomatoes. The procedure on tomatoes is kind of extensive and smelly. Dig a hole with the post-hole digger, add a quart of guano, a handfull of chileated minerals, throw some dirt back in, gently slip in the plant, and top it off with two quarts of diluted seaweed um, goop. Yeah. Smelly. I had no idea that guano could be from birds and not just bats. This guano was easily identifiable as being from birds due to all the feathers. For some reason that made it grosser to me. That’s right, grosser.

Stay tuned for a new feature later this week called, “Hoes I’ve Known.”