This weekend at the farm, we are all celebrating the sunshine and warmth!  It won’t take long with the 80 degree + temperatures for all the plants to recover from last weeks cool rains.

Early Spring to Summer has to be one of my favorite seasons because you can walk through the garden each day and notice great changes!  The pictures above certainly highlight some of Spring’s best.  The top pictures is a variety of false blue indigo.  Typically, a true light blue this variety is actually almost burgundy.  Because this flower holds so well, Vanessa loves to use this flower in bouquets.

The second picture is our guineas or sentinels.  When you visit the farm, listen for their constant calls or watch for them ducking in and out of the prairie grass or walking with goats.  We have been so pleased that they have made it through the winter.  We hope some are beginning to sit on nests, but they are notoriously attention deficit about nests so having young ones this year might not work out.

I love iris.  They are such a stately spring flower and bi color ones are especially gorgeous.  Then can you guess the next flower?  It is a foxtail lily.  Very unusual and eye-catching.

Saturday, June 5 from 8-Noon, we will be hosting a “sneak preview” of the gardens at the Farm in conjunction with Strasburg’s all-town garage sales (although only the earliest of daylilies will be blooming) produce and plants will be available for purchase at the Farm.

For those interested in flea markets, look for us at Patsy Lenz’s Flea Market (east side of Route 32 at the north end of Strasburg – you won’t miss it ).  We plan on being there from 7:30 a.m. to Noon too.

Spring Planting began in April

Spring at the Farm is such fun!  We planted over 150 pounds of potatoes, 100 tomatoes, etc.  The whole family turns out to work on days like this… With the early warmth, most plants are growing quickly – and those almost frosty nights have had us all holding our breath.

Vanessa’s email produce route begun last week.  It was so good to see many of you and catch up on what has happened over this past winter.  If you haven’t had a chance to email Vanessa and add your name to her weekly email, please do.  We will be glad to let you know what is available-    Have a great week and keep watching for the sunshine.

There were five baby goats born in March. They are Dreamer, Kicker, Oreo, Hershey, Jumpy. The goats are fun filled and active and like to run around in the pen with their moms.