Blinded by the Freeze

I didn’t address this, but we had a serious frost here last weekend. I know I touched base about it, but now I am starting to understand just how serious it was.  It didn’t really do much damage here at Wildgrace - 10 or so tomatoes, a few brassicas, etc - but the other farmers in the area got hit big time.

Some of my farmer friends lost all of their brassicas, all of their fruit…everything they had out.  Even down in the valley, in Davis, they had a freeze (which set a record for the latest freeze down there), and lost tomatoes and all the other warm season stuff.

I saw it coming, by looking at the forecast, but I really didn’t believe it was going to get as cold as it did.  I mean, a couple of days prior, it was 85 here, with 52 as the low!

So, that is farming.  We can’t control the weather.  We can’t control the gophers.  I have a tough enough time controlling myself and my own mental state, let alone the forces of our great mother.

Let’s all commiserate with our farmers.  Let’s show them more support than ever, knowing that this job is at once both gratifying and impossibly frustrating and confounding.

By the way, it was 85 again today.