Thanks everyone for a great start to the season!

We designed a poster last week, and we already have customers lining up to purchase a share of this season’s vegetables. A big thanks goes out to everyone involved in making this season’s flyer!

This year, we’re going to keep bees on the farm. We have a couple of reasons for this. Firstly, in keeping with our ideal of sustainable farming, we’re keeping the bees to help pollinate the plants and trees in the undeveloped areas of our farm. Second, we’d like to provide honey to our shareholders in future years of our participation in the CSA.

Unfortunately, despite our best offers to the rain gods, it has continued to rain incessantly here in the Klamath Basin, keeping us from working in the fields. On the upside, our greenhouse seedlings continue to thrive, even with the freezing cold night temperatures. Many thanks to Mark and Ray for keeping them warm and watered.

Our turkeys are continuing to grow every day! At this point in their lives, they perform only three functions: eating, sleeping, and pooping. We appreciate all that feed, water, and clean up after our feathered little friends.

Our shipment of onions is due to arrive mid-April. We’re expecting a little over 2000 onions for this year. Once they arrive, we’ll be able to go out and plant our first wave of crops.

A big thanks to Glenn and everyone on the Rogue River trip for picking up the beekeeping supplies for us!

-DB

At the beginning of this week, the seeds we planted last week started to sprout. First to peek through were the two types of kale we have. Next came the tomatoes. They grow much taller than the kale, so even though they sprouted later, they’re much taller than the kale. Last to sprout in the greenhouse was the chard. On Tuesday, only three had come through the ground. Now we have at least twenty of them above the surface.

On Wednesday, we drove up to Salem to pick up an old ODOT pickup with a sign. We had a great time making it say funny things while driving back down the highway. It’s a great truck, and we plan to convert it to run on bio-diesel (which we’ll be making ourselves).

Thursday, we picked up five baby broad-breasted turkeys. We had to build a brooder for them. (A brooder is basically a large pen.)

Rather unfortunately, it’s been raining and snowing all week, so we haven’t been able to plant in the fields yet. Our hope is that it clears up over the weekend so we can get our fields started.

-DB

Starting Seeds 

This past week, we at the Acre started planting seeds for our participation in the CSA (Community Supported Agriculture).

We planted everything from peppers to tomatoes to cabbage to spices like cilantro. We even planted eggplants! Many of our seeds went into our newly built heat rack. This will keep the seeds warm in the soil, even though we’re out here in Oregon.

-DB