Entering April

We are slowly leaving winter behind and entering our fourth season here at Hosac Farm, although it still feels like we only just got here.  This time of year always has us feeling a bit antsy.  The weather is warming and there is much to do on the horizon, but for a little while longer we are still limited by the weather and the remaining snow on the ground.  Around this time I am always reminded of the first April Fool's day we had here on our farm, when I went into the barn and found 2 unplanned newborn lambs.  It's a bit of a long story, but we had a loose ram get in with the Ewes for no more than an hour a few months prior to that April morning,  and we had since blissfully put the consequences out of our minds...  When I ran back to the house to alert Kyle of the newborns in the barn, he was sure I was joking.

We completed the construction of our seedling house in late February of this year.  The building allows us to start our own seedlings for the first time.  Past seasons we have bought in seedlings and traded work with the Earle Farm for starts. The project took almost two years to complete, start to finish, in very sporadic busts.  Kyle and his dad spent many hours digging the foundation, and making the building a reality over the course of those two years.   There was a lot of prep. and site work done that is now buried!  Time spent working on the seedling house was limited by winter, dismantling two older out-building near the work site,  spring mud, and other more pressing summer/fall farm work priorities.  Various stages of the building process left us with what I called "the pit" in the middle of the yard, and the neighbors were quite convinced we were putting in a swimming pool.  It is now a beautiful functional space, and relieving some of our early spring restlessness with the tiny green plants that it holds inside. 

Happy Spring.