Notes from the Garden
Many of our crops were feeling the effects of this long freeze—the young mustard greens, lettuce mix, Chinese cabbage, and some of our butter lettuce heads did not make it. However, our hardy collards, kale, beets, and carrots did well! We harvested the rest of our lettuce heads and shared the outer leaves with our ducks. We expect to harvest the carrots sometime during the next week because we don't anticipate them growing much bigger.
In this cold weather, there isn't much to do in the garden. We've spent time planning for the spring, organizing our calendar as well as our barn space, and last week we spent some time cleaning up around the farm! We had a lot of bits and pieces of building material lying around and we finally picked them up and packed them out!
This week, we chose a few sweet gum trees to be used for our next big mushroom log project! We felled two sweet gums which made about 25 logs to be inoculated by middle and high schoolers in the coming weeks. These will be added to our existing food forest where they will fruit shittake and oyster mushrooms for the next 3-4 years!
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