Well, it was the wettest May on record ever in Vermont, and now the wettest June in over 100 years. The result is we are very wet. Just this week we had 3 inches on Monday, 1 inch or so Tuesday night, and now they are predicting thunderstorms for this afternoon with high winds and hail. Great. . .

You can read all about it here, here, and and here.

Since people have been asking, I thought I would report that we are actually more fortunate than most. Our land is pretty well drained -- some veggie and dairy farms up here are basically wiped out for the season. But even we are feeling the impact of all this rain. We have tomato diseases in the greenhouse created by too much moisture and not enough sun. Our field is a mess because we haven't been able to plant our successions as planned, we haven't been able to mechanically cultivate our weeds as planned, and there is one whole section of our field (our wet spot) that we haven't been able to access at all yet. So while we aren't wiped out, our yields are down (particularly our tomatoes), our consistency will be way off, and our disease and weed problems are way up.

What I am learning is that every year something will go wrong. No matter what. That is hard for the perfectionist in me to accept. But it is the truth. So I need to learn to roll with the punches more, and figure that in the long run it all evens out. Because every year some things will go very very right, and things do, in fact, have a way of evening out. And in the meantime, we are doing fine, and having a blast. Just check out the puppet show post below.

Garlic scapes.

Chris staffing the stand. This is taken near the end of market, which is why there is not much left on the stand. Chris, Sarah and Sam filled in for Cornelia this week, who is on vacation.

Quinn goofing off. Wavy was pretending to be the mommy making her take a nap.

Henry actually taking a nap.

While doing up the CSA flyer this past winter, I realized I had no photos at all of last year's baskets. So this year I resolved to take at least one photo of the basket each week. So having the camera at market has also gotten me, so far, to take more photos for the blog. There is a production end of things too, hopefully we'll post more photos from that end soon!!

Cornelia and our new set up -- tilting display table, rectangular umbrella.

Baby beets and beet greens.

Salad turnips!

Bok choy.

Cornelia and Henry.

Good times.

My sister Jessica told me about the fight to save a community farm in South Central L.A.

Sorry I haven't posted in forever. But it has just been crazy busy around here. From April 15 to about June 15 we are busy with seedlings, getting all our big annual plantings in the ground, plus getting our weekly plantings done, plus getting ready for the farmer's market and CSA season. In addition to that, all of the rain has really been affecting our ability to get certain jobs done, so there is some field work we are really behind on.

But once the annual plantings are in, and the markets and the CSA start, a certain rhythm takes over each week, and the workload is pared back to a slightly more managable level.

That time is coming soon, which is a good thing. I have been getting a little burnt out. When Maryellen asked me what I wanted for Father's Day yesterday, I only said, "A day off." And when I was telling Maryellen the other day about how I probably messed up the fertility in one part of the field, and that we might lose our onion crop, she reminded me that I said the same thing last year, and in the end, we had plenty of onions.

When she mentioned that I had to think, because I genuinely did not remember saying last year that we would lose the onions. And it made me realize that this time of year is stressful because you have done all this work, but you have nothing to show for it until the crops mature.

So maybe I shouldn't take myself too seriously this time of year. For example, last year I was all doom and gloom about our tomatoes, and while we did have some disease problems, we got a crop off, and it all worked out Ok. And while last year started out cold, it heated up and was our best melon year yet.

I guess it is all going to work out somehow. But I am looking forward to that day off next Sunday.