Buring the mid night oil or at least trying to.

It has been another Busy weekend For me.  on Thursday My dad and I spread out my compost piles where I will be planting corn this spring.  on Friday I tilled in the manure that we had hauled the day before.  Saturday I went to Farmers market and sold some more potatoes and then I went to Annies Gardens and Green.  She had a open house at her shop that was alot of fun.  Sunday I spent time with My mom being it was mothers day. in the evening I went out and did a little bit of tillage worked about 20 acres up till I got to the wetter part of the Field then I ended up stopping got about half way done with the Field.  didn't feel I did to bad for starting at 8 in the evening and going till about 10.  it was lots of fun got to try out dads new GPS guidance system not quite sure what to think about it but it did make it a little easier when turning around.  Looks like I will get a short break in the weather to get my planting in for the week, looks like it might be a Little wetter the end of this week so hopefully I and my crew will get some plants transplanted and I will be able to do some seeding on Tuesday. Ill keep ya all posted on how it goes.  these are some shots from last fall but I thought they where fitting.  

Ready....Set......................Grow

super C ready to Go

Field after we transplanted Saturday

On Monday I was busy planting I planted some chard a bunch of beets and carrots.  I also planted my weekly salad and a bed of head lettuce.  I am very glad that I got what I did planted because we have been blessed with more RAIN.  that's alright it gives me a chance to some book work and get equipment ready to go.  currently I am working on putting a cultivator on my M so that I can cultivate my potatoes.  once it drys out lots of cultivating to be done.  I will get to try out my 4 row cultivator on my super C and see how close to having it set correctly, hopefully I wont have to adjust it to much

Fine weather for ducks with a sunny ending

plants before we planted Saturday Rodney driving the transplater

It Has been another busy week on my farm.  It started off with being rainy and not able to do much in the Fields but there where still plenty of things to do.  This past week I worked on equipment. I changed my recently acquired transplanter "aka My birthday present to my self haha, it arrived at our farm the day before my birthday." to 34" row centers so it matched up with how I have every thing else set. the next day I brought my super C home and put a cultivator on it so that I can cultivate my salad Ill put more pictures of that up on here once I start doing that.  then it was barely dry enough to squeak in this weeks salad planting, I got it in quick because I wasn't sure if we where going to be getting more rain like they where talking about, luckily it just sprinkled a little.  Friday  we staked out where my new Packing shed and machine shed is going to be built then I roto tilled so that we could transplant on Saturday.  for the first run with my new transplanter I feel we did well we planted about 7500 transplants in the afternoon, lots of mini red onions, spring raab, Kohlrabi, and head lettuce.  Thank you Rodney and Ryan Crain for helping. I almost for got to mention that I went to Farmers market today and sold a few potatoes that I have stored over winter, it was great to be back at farmers market to see all of my friends down there.  stay tuned for more excitement @ G It's Fresh.

my Cultivator tractor before I put all sorts of cultivator parts on it.

 

Fun in the sun

On Friday I got to spend a good portion of the day roto tilling. it is actually a task I really enjoy because I get to sit still for a while and reflect on what has been going on at my farm and in my life. I also got to plant a few Parsnips with my new planter, it didn't go to bad except that it was really windy and the seed wasn't all ending up where it was suspose to but at least I got some of planted before we got this much needed rain. Saturday I worked on catching up on book work for my organic certification which is a never ending task but well worth the effort because it helps me keep track of what I have been up to so that I can do a better job of planing in years to come. I also got to work on setting up my new transplanter that came from Michigan on the 14th of April so that the rows matched up with what I have every thing else set at. Hopefully the ground will dry out enough this week so that I can keep planting, but I'm not holding my breath on it because the weather map depicts that it is looking like a wet week. looks like a good week to get things ready to go!

First post

Welcome to my blog spot decided to give this try to keep every one up to date what is happening in my life and on farm enjoy! well today was another busy day took another 250#s of potatoes to Luther college I'm amazed that I have been able to keep them in storage this long. this afternoon I got to try out my new retro fitted planter it work very well now I just need to put some weight on the front so that it is easier to lift it up and turn it around. this evening I got to visit with a group called seeds @ Luther College it was a lot of fun visiting with student about what I am so passionate in doing.