April is a busy time

An exciting event happened this month when I went to the farm to pick up my wonderful large eggs from Farmer Dave. He had a sign saying he was selling local wheat, and we got to talking about how I wanted to bake bread from local wheat, but had trouble finding it. He said he would give me some wheat berries, but did not do any milling and we decided I would do it with a blender. He also suggested using a fan to get out the chaff, and I thought I would use a hair dryer. Fortunately there was very little chaff, and I did not have to test that theory. So I proceeded to make whole wheat flour just like the pioneers, with very successful results..according to everyone who sampled my bread.







April appears to be one of the busiest times for seedlings and garden prep and it is easy to forget to document when each step is taking place. Separating and transplanting all the little plants to larger quarters takes time and patience...a good learning experience for me. I learned you have to wait for the seedlings to get a second set of leaves before moving them and now all I have left are cherry tomatoes to do. I also put onion and leek sets in the garden, as well as directly planted carrots, potatoes, soy beans, beets, spinach, more lettuce, fennel, arugula, and raddichio. All kinds of squash, broccoli, cauliflower, broccoflower, eggplant and pepper will go in early in May. I think tomatoes go in last as they are the most fragile. Here are some photos of the some of these activities.

Please bear with me while I hone my formatting skills; my goal today was to document all the activities before they fled my mind..which is as scattered as this format.