2 Days and the Camera

Here is the breakdown for Tuesday and Wednesday.

**ALERT**

Our Kodak M883 is down.  2nd time this year.  Looks like this 3 year old digital dude can’t handle being in the hands of a farmer.  Stinks.  We will see what comes of this.  Sorry for the lack of pictures, now we need to research how to fully use the Flip video device Peaceful Valley loaned to us.  Please be fore warned, I have footage!

Tuesday is the day that we take a mini break from farming and go do landscaping ($) in near by Bainbridge Island. We weeded, we pruned, it was alright. After a yummy lunch break, we head over to our farmers market manager’s neigbors to help them put in 15 raspberry plants. Good times.  Now, off to pot up tomatoes!

Well we made it to the propagation house at roughly 9pm and turned off the light and tucked them in at 11:30.  Got home and crashed.

Wed.  7 a.m. start. FLOWER DAY.

Fed the chickens and ducks.
Went to pickup bulk feed from another local chicken farmer, Harley.  He runs a great business of purchasing large one ton quantities of different sorts of Organic Feed for local farmers.  Price per lb. is fourty cents.
Bought lumber for our badly needed 1st foraging chicken tractor!
Kelped and weeded the Broccoli.
Prepared a new bed for transplanting of more Broccoli. (till, cultivate, rake, fluffy till up… it was a bit chunky)
Transplanted Broccoli, that makes 300 row feet!  5 varieties:  Calabrese, Nutri-bud, De Cicco, Atlantic, Purple Peacock.  3 of those are new to us this season.
Got a load of topsoil in the pickup.
Started preparation for tomorrows big transplanting day during the biodynamic cycle of LEAF.  We got loads of lettuce still in trays, hating on us right now.  They’ll forgive us tomorrow. (we hope!)
After cleaning out the topsoil I took the pickup over to another local farm and picked up a row maker/disc tractor attachment as Roger (our tractor man) is coming out.  Three days ago I called him in crisis of needing to get 600 strawberries and some blueberries in the ground—  tomorrow he comes to till and row up what little ground is left.  Having Roger make up rows forces us to work with 4’ wide beds.  Last year we made them up by hand and went with 4’ wide beds as well but mainly created 30” wide rows.  I’m fearing not being able to plant all that we need for the market and the CSA.
Got home from getting the row maker and mowed the property.  I do this in exchange for a discount in rent…. A tough job to do (and enjoy) when your trying to farm.
At about 8:30 pm we arrived to the propagation house and the tomatoes.  We potted up more one gallons around 80 or so and turned the lights of at 11pm.  Now I blog and sleep. 6 am start tomorrow.