I'm back!

I'm going to attempt to resurrect my blog. It's been awhile, but I hope to write once a week, updating interested folks on what's happening at Mirella Rose Farm.

With the time change behind us, it's really starting to feel like spring, with light later in the evening. We've got big growth in the greenhouse. We've been able to offer our CSA members lettuce all winter, except for a couple of the coldest weeks in February. And as the days grow longer, the growth is much faster now, so we can pick more. We've also been enjoying carrots in the greenhouse that Orrin had planted back in July. New lettuce that he planted in January and February is up and starting to get bigger. We planted turnips and radishes in there this weekend, for the third time. We're planting every few weeks to ensure a longer period of availability, once they're ready to eat.

Last weekend, Orrin planted approximately 800 onion seeds in soil blocks. He planted both green onions and storage onions. Within a few days, the green onions had already sprouted, and are looking healthy and strong.

Yesterday we transplanted all of the lettuce out of Bed #6 in the greenhouse (there are 6 beds total), moving them into empty spaces in other beds. Then Orrin planted Bed #6 with potatoes. These will be our early potatoes, ready sometime in June.

Saturday was also the arrival of our 2 newest additions to the farm, a cow and bull, which are Milking Devons. The cow is bred, due to calve in early summer. These will be dual-purpose meat and dairy animals. I look forward to making our own grass-fed butter with the milk. The milk will mostly go towards fattening pigs.

Red leaf lettuce - our big champion of winter. It never seemed to stop growing, even in the coldest part of winter.

Greens in the greenhouse, prepping the far left bed for potato planting this past weekend.

From left to right: Nils, our new bull; Delilah, the new cow; Gigi and Elgie.

Delilah.