Although the weather has been terrible this year, we’re planting to end the year with a bang! Spinach, kale, chard, peas, squash, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, zucchini, broccoli, beets, acorn squash, spaghetti squash, butternut squash and cabbage are all in the ground.
Peas and spinach
Chard is coming up nicely.
The kale looks beautiful!
Yellow squash should arrive on the new plants soon
222 freshly planted and watered broccoli and cabbage plants.
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When we pick greens, they’re tied into a bundle and stored in a cooler of fresh ice water with the stems down. This is today’s items to be delivered: Curly leaf kale, beet greens and lettuce.
The first deliveries of the season went out yesterday! It’s so nice to meet new friends and visit with the ones we made last year. We’re so proud to be able to feed families with local, healthy, fresh produce.
The season always begins with greens. This week’s delivery contains farm fresh eggs, broccoli and lots of greens: Two types of kale, beet greens, and Swiss chard.
We’ll be coming around to visit with everyone soon!
We ordered foundation for the beehive frames. Basically, it’s sheets of beeswax that help the bees build up their stores more quickly. A few of them got messed up in the installation. Not wanting to let the wax go to waste, I stripped out the wires and made some candles.
I took one to work with me and burned it to see how long it would last. Surprisingly, it lasted right at a full hour.
It amused me to see how happy the candle was to have been burned…
It’s not always work and seriousness on the farm 🙂
This little fella is a month old today. He’s a pretty sweet fella, who’s getting bigger each day. 
As time grows near to start making deliveries, we grow excited to meet new friends and being able to help feed their families.
Each work day I spend my time thinking about what I can accomplish that afternoon, letting the anticipation build as 3:30 draws near. There is always so much you want and need to get done. Every afternoon is spent checking to see what has come up or blooming, the excitement to see what is new.
The rain may have delayed us a bit, but we’re looking at deliveries to begin with 2 weeks. Yay!!!
I had a lot of fun at the OMU Health Fair this morning. Met some really nice people. Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth, said hello or chatted for a bit. It was nice to meet all of you. We’re thankful for the opportunity to meet new people and to be able to educate them about what we do and why we do it.
If anyone needs any further information about our delivery service, we can be reached at 270.302.9468 via call or text. If you want to email us, use JakesRun@yahoo.com.
It was a busy day on the farm. We met my stepmom and niece for yard saling this morning, ate lunch at Cracker Barrel, picked up some rabbit fencing someone needed to give away (free!!!), then we headed home.
The broccoli, cabbage, brussel sprouts, and 109 tomato plants went into the ground today.
For anyone interested, this is what my fitness tracker looks like at this moment: 
I believe we will sleep well tonight.
There once was a girl who begged for a cow. For months she begged and begged. She wanted one so very badly. This is the moment when she finally met him. (She was at a sleepover last night.) She’s a very happy camper tonight.
“This is the best thing ever,” she said quietly.
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