03/19/2026
This is man who tends to most everything out here with the exception of cut flowers. (Though he does open and close tunnels, turn off the water I forgot to before leaving the farm, and is always in search of the next branch and flowering native he can recommend). He’s in surgery today for a hernia that finally was wearing on his formidable farm spirit. Nely and I will be in charge of the pastures for the next few weeks while he recovers which might prove trickier for him than a bulging hernia. He’s used to dumping a ton of feed sack by sack for the chickens, bending for countless hours planting onions and potatoes, cutting down trees, chopping firewood, rolling out bales of hay across pastures…and he’s almost 80😳. Not sure my almost 50 year old body can do all this, but thankfully the pastures are growing and greening which means we will continue feeding hay for just another month or so. We won’t see you at market this weekend but will be back next Saturday with eggs, grass fed beef, lamb, pastured chicken and maybe just maybe some of our season’s first flowers!
