At times like these when there’s still over a foot of frozen snow on the ground and the forecast ahead predicts frigid weeks to come there is little for the farmer to do but sigh, scheme and sow seeds for warmer days to come. Besides the snow and cold being a constant Winter occurrence just as consistently the arrival sometimes twice daily of packages from our favorite seed companies is a Winter staple. These packages filled with this years seeds represent a lot, our hopes, dreams, livelihood and most importantly Good Food for this coming season. As many of you know farmers and gardeners could be describes as a kid in a candy store, when it comes to thumbing through catalogs and ordering seeds. Indeed and especially if you order early you can have the pick of the litter when it comes to some of the tastiest and highest performing fruit and vegetable varieties.
We mainly use a few seed companies like Johnny’s Selected Seeds, High Mowing and Territorial Seeds to name a few. These are great companies and what they represent is the offerings from some of the most behind the scene farmers around, seed growers. Having reliable and quality seeds to grow with throughout the season is more than essential to growers all over the world and it is easily taken for granted. Years of plant breeding, variety selection and so much more than we can imagine go into the careful cultivation of seeds for some of the veg both growers and eaters alike have come to love and rely on. Just like any farmers their margins are small, the work and risk are large but the love for and knowledge of the power of their work surely must keep them doing what they do. So we wanted to take a moment and thank all of those seed growers out there without whom we just could not do what we do.
Unfortunately with the continuation of Winter weather doing what we do means having a lighter harvest than we would want and adjusting the on farm options. This weeks open farm shop hours will be cancelled again due to temps and weather and we will be offering preorder only. In addition to this if you order for Friday there is the possibility that the weather will require that all orders be moved to Saturday pick up. If this is the case we will reach out to anyone who orders for Friday. Likely next week will be a similar schedule though we will solidify that schedule next week. We thank you all for your understanding and patience as we navigate the open shop hours and Winter weather.
Have a Great Week