This month, I had the wonderful opportunity to go visit and work on another sustainable farm in Hutchinson, Kansas for a week and a half.  It is fun to see other farms and get some great ideas.  I have spent over 5 years in the vegetable side of farming but I wanted to expand my learning to the animal side.  I got to observe how they raise laying hens, broiler chickens, beef cattle, milk cows, and lambs.  It is baby season so that made it all the more fun!  It has inspired me that sometime in the near future I would like to add farm fresh eggs from pastured laying hens.

The garlic has appeared for it’s spring début!  It will be ready to harvest around the 4th of July.  Yummy!

This one flat of seeds contains 200+ tomatoes, 400+ peppers, 400+ lettuce,  75+ basil, 400+ Swiss chard, tomatillos, kohlrabi, broccoli, cabbage and more!  It is amazing how it all starts out in such a small 2′ x 1′ space and by summer is taking up 1000s of square feet!

Amazingly, the spinach I planted last fall has survived the winter!  I was very pleased that it made it through all those freezing nights.

Hundreds of red, white, and sweet baby onions! These should be ready to transplant outside in a little over a month. Spring is coming fast!

Spring must be near!  The seed orders have arrived and the onions and leeks are already planted in their warm trays to coax them up and get a head start on the season. 

I placed the seed orders last night and ordered over 100 different varieties of seed!  It is amazing all of the choices out there.  As soon as the seeds arrive in the mail it will be time to get the onions going!