Farm prodigy

Even though Waverly is eighteen months old, and is still learning how to talk, I am constantly amazed at how much she understands what is happening around here. This morning at the breakfast table, Maryellen and I were discussing how we had to go out to the greenhouse today and seed some trays.

When we finally made it out to the greenhouse about a half an hour later, Maryellen and I got distracted by some other project, but Waverly headed right over to the pile of seedling trays and started putting potting soil in the trays.

Not only did she understand what we were talking about at breakfast, but she was the one who remembered what we had to do when we got to the greenhouse, and apparently she remembered how to seed trays from some other time we were out there seeding trays. Too much.

Later, it got so hot and sunny in the greenhouse (up to 85 degrees!) that Wavo went for the hillbilly look. [Note the snow piled up around the outside of the greenhouse. Even though daytime highs have crept into the mid to high 30s, we still have at least a couple feet of snow on the ground up here.]

But the tomato and pepper seedlings love the heat!

And later, when the sun starts going down, it can get kind of foggy, for reasons that I am sure make sense, but that I don't fully understand. Here is Maryellen using a broadfork to aerate the area where the tomatoes will go.

There is lots of other news around here too, including the Catamount's big win, and our first CSA customers, but those topics will have to wait -- the busy season has started and right now I am tired and going to bed.