Sweet, sweet spring!  Hello farm friends, hope you are enjoying the moderate temperatures that have marked our spring.  I actually found myself wishing for rain, contrary to the rain deluge we had last year.  At least farmers are putting up a decent cut of hay with these good drying conditions.  Anyway, spring has been good to us.  Fern and I have been helping out once a week at our friend's farms this year-Harmony Hill Gardens and The Turnip Truck, both in Bucks County, PA.  We help weed and prepare beds for crops.  We enjoy the great company, but also the wide open spaces that our home in Bethlehem can't provide.  We belong outside.  Fern has spent half of her life outside already!  This is the first spring in 13 years that I haven't worked like crazy in horticulture.  It's a bit strange for me to be chasing a toddler all day and wonder why my house still isn't in ship shape like I projected, with all of my "free time".  So here I am, chipping in helping friends and raising our child.  It's a good life, but still a struggle, especially with Joe working away 4-5 nights a week. 
     I am doing a good job procrastinating about rewriting our business plan.  I am not very good at being still,  which researching and typing require.   A curious toddler pounding on the keys then shuts me down, and I don't get back to it till more than a week later.   Most of you probably know about my absence from the internet and social networking since you have to call me to contact me...I feel pretty out of touch sometimes.  I am embarking on a different kind of work-raising a child, instead of the brains and braun that have marked my springs for all of my adult life.  I must buckle down and begin researching so that our farm will thrive and have several income streams. 

 

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