Colvin Family Farm

We are getting the last orders of seed and supplies in for the season, and are getting started on finding what has been back-ordered, it is frustrating when you have something that you really need back-ordered and have to track it down somewhere else. Last year we had to order our snap peas five different times before we finally got them! It's going to be exciting using the new pieces of equipment we've been able to get for this season. Johnny's Selected Seed is a great supplier of innovative and affordable tools for the small farm, and we are excited about trying one of their 48" "Greens Harvesters"! It should save us hundreds of man hours as harvesting greens is one of the most time intensive parts of harvesting! See a video of it working here! We have also started planting our early vegetable starts--Broccoli, Chinese Cabbage, Kale, Cabbage, Lettuce and Spinach! To avoid having to heat the greenhouse for 40 flats, we have set up three levels of tables in our kitchen that should hold what we need it to for a few weeks anyhow. The weather has been horrible! It's been one of the wettest, coldest Winters that I remember! Starting about midnight on the 31st of January we were out of power for more than 52 hours due to a heavy ice storm! With temperatures hovering right under freezing it was very uncomfortable. We are planning on working the ground the first chance that we get--we might have one or two days out of two or three months that the fields are dry enough to plow, and we will utilize the first one that comes along because we know that we might not get a second!

 Hope you all have a great month

 Adam Colvin
Colvin Family Farm (CNG)
www.ColvinFamilyFarm.com

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