Posts Tagged ‘NID’

April Showers

Last week the skies opened gently for four days and we didn’t have to irrigate at all.  Until today.  We received a modest dose of gentle hail (not a contradiction in terms, in fact).  However, the soil moisture is rapidly leaving us from last week’s rains.  The summer heat is setting in, already.  The next couple of weeks are forecasted to hold mid 70- mid 80s.  So, we’ll be hard at it as far as irrigation is concerned.

We have a most excellent irrigation system.  It can deliver a lot of water at once.  We have a lot of water as well.  It comes from our amazing irrigation district, and it comes abundantly, and it comes everyday for six months, starting last week.  We, however, have a cog missing in the wheel.  And that cog is the most important.  It is the pump that takes the water from our irrigation district-fed pond, and moves it through our system.  We are paralyzed without that pump.

Right now we have a very janky system that delivers a tiny amount of water to the two acres we have planted right now.  So, you could imagine that we were very enthusiastic about four days of rain last week.

We should get the pump installed on Thursday.

We have 35 CSA members right now.

Water Flows

Water is flowing