Cute kid. Sick, but still cute.



Trudged through a school day and a faculty meeting, but hopefully we'll get more sleep tonight. I'm hoping I'll see a happy baby soon - she's fighting a nasty cold and a new tooth so it's been a VERY long day already!!!!

Getting lots of great ideas from the "New Farmer's Market" - if you haven't read "Sell What You Sow" I think the two complement each other well. I wish I knew more about the market we're headed to - I've never been, and there aren't too many pictures on the website to give me a very good idea. The app's haven't arrived in the mail yet, but maybe the board can give me some specs on stall space and rules re: canopies and such.

I have a pretty basic set-up planned - long fold out table, covered in a green tablecloth, with a second "shelf" provided by two upended egg crates and a long board. The farm sign will hang down over the back of the jeep or truck to camouflage that area, and we probably will go with an EZ up type of canopy. I think I'm going to make a pyramid of egg cartons to draw attention to the eggs (which will be in the truck in a cooler) and then lay out the veggies in tilted flats and a variety of baskets. I need to get some berry baskets and some flats, though we have some nice bigger baskets already. We're getting two hunter green aprons made with the farm logo to wear and use to make change. (there's a place at the mall that charges for embroidery by the letter and you can provide the item to be embroidered.)

One idea in the market book was to fill a crate with coke bottles cut in half, and use those to hold cut flowers, greens, basil, etc. I'm going to try that for our spring kale. The pigs were out and about a lot yesterday and today I noticed much bigger holes then I've seen before, so hopefully by April 1st our first plot will be nice and tilled - we still need to dig new paths, as we're changing it from two way-too-broad beds to four narrower beds running the length of that area. It's nice to start spring crops in that fenced in area since it's this time of year that the deer tend to be ravenous, even though their paths don't normally overlap our main fields. I think the pigs will work well tilling smaller pieces of ground since the weather will be warmer and we'll be confining them to relatively smaller spaces. It's nice to see that all those books weren't just pulling our leg - for relatively slow moving critters they turn up a LOT of ground.

The albino corn experiment is wrapping up in the classroom, and I think we'll try growing radishes and ball shaped carrots in deep flats along with baby spinach - last year we didn't actually get much in the way of edibles, so it'll be nice to be able to grow enough for each class to have a salad or too :) Maybe we can order a pizza and make it a real party, lol.

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Posted: Tue - March 7, 2006 at 10:37 PM        

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