Pure Earth Organic Farm, LLC

Welcome to our first foray into blog writing.

 Pure Earth Organic Farm has been online for about 15 years or so, but one thing we never did was blog before.

 I guess the closest we ever came to a blog is our Facebook page . . .

. . . which we are still pretty active on.  Check it out for current photos and stories.

So far the news of the year is that the snow and pond ice has melted.  The baby garlic was poking through the soil and snow about a week ago.  The honeybees have emerged from the hive to do some cleansing flights after a long cold winter, and maybe to try and find some pollen.

 Yesterday, Saturday March 19th, was an interesting day in N.W. Pennsylvania, starting off with us getting our first seeds in the ground.  We planting some peas, radishes, beets and kale.

In the afternoon, I, along with my friends and neighbors from Maple Harvest Farm . . . 

. . . went out to a few different Sugar Shacks on the N.W. PA Maple Assn's, taste and tour.

Afterwards, I attended the regional potluck social for the Pennsylvania Assn. for Sustainable Agriculture.  It was a very nice event.  Good to see old friends and meet a few new folks. 

 And the end to the day was a spectacular full moon, which some call the Super Perigee full moon, because this is the closest the moon has been to earth in quite a few years.  Honestly, I wasn't able to see the difference between other full moons, but what is cool, is that while I am writing this on Sunday morning, the moon is still full, still visible, and today is also the last day of Winter, since Spring starts this evening around the 19th hour of today.

 Plans for today are to move some firewood into the house, because the temps. are still cold, and I am expecting more cold weather and snow to close out the month of March (In like a lamb, out like a lion), do a little more Sugar Shacking, maybe continue pruning some of our apple trees, and later this afternoon, check on the bees if the temps. get warm enough.

I hope you enjoyed our first installment of this blog, and I hope you check back occasionally for our farm updates.

Thanks,

Sincerely & Organically Yours,

"Farmer Troy" Bogdan