Abbe Hills Farm CSA

Greetings shareholders and friends of Abbe Hills Farm,

Market tomorrow morning, 10:00 until noon at the Community Center in Mt. Vernon.  We’re staying home again – too few hours of sunshine in the week to get all our work done if we keep going places.  The other vendors will have meat, coffee, eggs, bakery, crafts, wine, walnuts.  I know they’d appreciate your business.

Amazingly, the thousands of little plants in the hoophouse keep growing – just a little – and we’re headed in the right direction.  The seed potatoes arrived on Monday, onion plants on Wednesday.   Tomorrow morning we’re helping Local Harvest CSA in Solon pull a giant sheet of plastic over their hoophouse.  The old plastic was ruined in a big wind over the winter.   Kind of a fun job if you can get thirty people together at exactly the ten minute period when there is no wind.  A 3000 square foot piece of plastic could lift you off the ground if you don’t have enough friends and you get in front of a gust!

After that, I’m headed to Monticello, hoping to trade for a new tiller that tills faster and better than the one I have.  With all the mud and cold, we have done absolutely no field work.  If we’re going to get those potatoes and onions and little plants in the ground, we’re going to have to work fast when it finally does dry out enough to go to the field without doing serious damage to the soil.  The new tiller will be bigger and faster and will hopefully let us start planting a day sooner.  During rainy springs, gaining one good day can make a big difference in what kind of food you get in your share sixty days later!

Thank you to all of you returning shareholders for your commitment to Abbe Hills Farm.  And all you new people – YIPPEE!  I think you’ll be glad that you have joined us.  I so appreciate your confidence in me and my workers.  We’re looking forward to a great season, even if this early planting is a bit of a hassle.

I have posters and handouts if you have a place where you work, exercise, worship, or drop off your kids where you can stick them.  Please let me know if I can deliver anything to you.

Enjoy the sun,

Laura

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