May has arrived with warm dry weather that has resulted a big push to catch up with all our planting at once! The past week has been very busy…the spring grain is in for us as well as Bill’s two small fields. Our Suffolk Punch Draft Horses worked hard on the process as they cultivated, spread compost, cultivated again, seeded and rolled all the grain fields. We also got the final hoop house up and the hoop house tomatoes are crying to be planted! We did manage to plant the strawberries for 2014, a new asparagus field and all of this years potatoes. The greenhouse was bursting at the seems and we moved our transplants out doors to “harden off” so that we had room to start the next flush of brassicas as well as cucurbites to be transplanted later this month (melons, squash, pumpkin and cucumber). Hopefully, in the coming week we can get the onions, leeks, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, celery, celeriac transplants that are ready out into the field. Ken still has some work to do on the new horse drawn transplanter and I have my fingers crossed that it will run smoothly!

Looking at the sudden growth of the rhubarb and the first spears of asparagus we have decided to have our first Saturday CSA pick-up on May 18 and first Tuesday CSA pick-up on May 21. It’s always a leap of faith to make our initial deep dive into the CSA pick-up season. However, things seem to be jumping now and we expect they will come along as usual. We just have to keep swimming and remember to come up for air once in a while.