This year's month of May has so far confirmed the blessings of a longer
spring. Just what we hoped and asked for. So far we've been able to
elongate our harvests a bit as the much warmer weather hasn't settled
in quite yet. Soon we'll install white shade cloth with extra
hydration as we love to bring you kales, lettuces, radishes, greens,
etc., for as long as we can and of course this will be of good use to
help with the tomatoes, peppers, etc.
Ron and I finished
fencing in the front yard last week to keep the dogs from running and
playing through the front yard gardens, knocking down plants as they
go. I promised photographs and have taken a lot to document and share,
now I just need to take the time to go through them and post. We're
still having trouble with the neighbor's horses coming over and
tearing up fences, gardens, etc., as the grass is always greener on
the other side. With us not having financial means to put up
livestock panels, I think we're going to try putting up a pallet
fence. It'll be temporary as the wood isn't treated and I'll mount
potted plants or something to spruce it up.
We've received a
request to sell our organic produce to a local restaurant. Due to
limited growing space (we'll begin our search for additional
property(ies) this year - yes, we need that 50 or 500 acre farm :) ) We
haven't promoted ourselves in the restaurant communities but look
forward to adding this to our line of deliveries. Soon you'll see us
promoting more. As we create this wonderful network of hobby
gardeners that take pride in growing strict organic, we've picked up
another local organic honey and produce farmer this week and will be
getting more honey and potatoes from him soon. Yes, we grow potatoes
and soon we'll have our own bees but as we network more, we're able to
provide to a larger clientele, we need all that want to eat healthy, to
have that opportunity. On the other plus side, it promotes and
provides a wider variety of items, if our broccoli isn't ready to
harvest yet, one of our partners' a little further north of us may
be....elongating the harvests to bring to you sooner for a longer
period of time. We love encouraging the stay-at-home parent, the
retiree, evening gardener, etc., to get their green thumbs out and
their hands dirty, and work with us to sell the remaining. We are
considering adding a subtitle to our Farm name. We are almost but not
exactly sure what the name will be yet, to develop and promote, large
and small gardeners with the same mission. We want to encourage any and
all that have a love of the outdoors and dirt on their hands to grow
something they love and network with us. If we can encourage this by
giving them an avenue to help disperse their extra organic farm fresh
to a stranger's table or restaurant kitchen, we are on our way to
feeding the world a healthier, non genetically modified product and
making a lot of friends along the way.
We thank you for your support of our Farm and our Mission.
Ron and Annette Layton
Little Eden Heirloom Farm
850/274-7690
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