The Farm in January

Just this and that...things are blooming at an alarming rate...not sure what this is all about, except it is very very early for some things, like the narcissus...and if you pull back the weeds, you can see the mint ready to go...

the camellias, usually burned from frost, are beautiful this month...and here is the state of the greenhouse which currently has strawberries, broccoli, artichokes, and lettuce - pretty nice for winter!

We also added a couple of navel oranges and a pink grapefruit to sit alongside the satsumas and meyer lemons...hope they take inspiration from their giant friends....

As for projects, we're preparing to dig trenches and put in water lines to the bees and the field...but that is the near-future...in the meantime, this is how you drag concrete steps away from the house in order to put railings on them...

that's all there is for this moment...seeds have been ordered, and one new company we used got the seeds to us in NOTHING FLAT! I mean, two days or so...but now we have the precious Shishito Pepper Seeds!
Time to pull out the seed flats and get to work. Really, the tomatoes need to be seeded right this minute. Well, the seeds aren't here yet, but they will be this week, so you know what we'll be doing this weekend.
It seems like we just put the farm to bed for winter and here we are gearing up for spring. I do wonder when and if we'll have more freezes. It doesn't seem possible that the answer is no and never again this season.We shall see.