The prop house tables are slowly filling up with seedlings, the first round of carrots and beets have germinated in their tunnel and the early tomatoes are almost ready to be potted up. We’re in the last stretch of winter… and it feels really good to see the green glow of young plants again.
We’re slowly organizing all the things, scheduling out the spring projects and noting what needs repaired before May arrives.
LET THE CSA COUNTDOWN BEGIN!
CSA Members - the first 2021 CSA Harvest is only 8 weeks away!
Sending out a BIG THANK YOU to all of our new and returning members this season. We’re blown away by how quickly the CSA Membership filled up this year!
Our Telluride CSA Shares are sold out and we only have a handful for Mancos CSA Shares remaining. So - Mancos folks, sign up ASAP to reserve your veggies for Spring/Summer.
Fun news! We adopted this sweet puppy in January from the Telluride Humane Society. Meet, Piper the farm dog! She’s an adorable fluff ball and such a joy to have around.
Piper is a mega mutt, but we joke that she’s half polar bear and half fox. She is always on the lookout for snacks, finds vole holes very exciting and loves our long morning walks.
For those of you who know Mike well, she may or may not be named after a Phish song…
We’re grateful for the moisture the region has received over the last month! It was feeling really scary in early January. The latest storms have definitely helped the snowpack and our upcoming irrigation season, but it’s important to know that our region is still in an exceptional/extreme drought. Our irrigation season isn’t looking great, and we’re expecting it to be a pretty short.
Below is the current US Drought Monitor Map of Colorado. Fingers crossed many more storms/moisture are in our future… come on spring rain/snow!
And I must say, I’m dreaming of a real monsoon season this summer. We haven’t had steady summer rain at the farm since 2017. Mmm, that summer was wonderful and SO GREEN. I’m hoping this summer brings lots of afternoon cloud cover that showers us with rain. Followed by bright, you can’t help but smile rainbows. Pretty please!
AND - I’m excited and oh so grateful to report that Mike and I received our first dose of the Moderna vaccine on Friday! Colorado Dept of Agriculture, thank you for helping to make sure that essential agriculture workers were high on the priority list for vaccinations. It feels like we are one step closer to normalcy… and less worry. I’m looking forward to spending time with family and friends this year, to holding my youngest nephew, to hugs, to holidays to dinner parties, to connection. I think we’re getting close…
