In your share this month: 

• Pork chops 
• Ground beef 
• Shoulder bacon 

• French Garlic sausage links 
• Guinea Fowl 
• Lamb roast 

On the Farm 

If you hang around farmers long enough, you will find that the thing they talk most about is the weather since it has so much influence on everything we do. This very unusual spring has taken that level of conversation up another notch. In March, April, and May, I have recorded about 20 inches of rain this year (compared to 7 last year), with half of that total in April alone, and of course, temperatures have been consistently below normal. Many of our friends who grow vegetables have had difficulty getting things planted because the fields are too wet to get equipment on them. We have fared better since our crop is grass and other forages, but even that has been growing much slower than normal. But what the wet spring has allowed me to do is get my new, experimental, pasture seed mix broadcast onto parts of the property without the need to disturb the soil at all. The continuous damp conditions allowed most of the seed to germinate while it was sitting right on the surface of the ground. I created a 16-seed blend to trial this year in the hopes of supplying more late summer forage, so I have been secretly hoping the sunny days stay to a minimum. We will report back later in the year with an update.  

On-farm events 

We were planning to invite everyone out for a tree planting party this spring until I realized the order of 200 bare-root trees was never going to come because I apparently never actually put the order in. So, I guess we’ll plan for that next spring. In the meantime, we are working on ideas for other events to happen once we can count on more reliable dry weather. Stay tuned!