THIS & THAT.
Some random photos from the past week.
Our bees swarmed! Unfortunately, this photo was taken with an intense zoom lens and they were at the very top of a very tall tree. We decided to leave them alone.
This is what happens in the spring after a big rain - the mint and the weeds quickly threaten to take over and we suddenly have chaos in the backyard. 
The hens are not laying in the coop - so we have Easter egg hunts every day!
The kittens are living in the outhouse per usual. 
Potato patch, looking good!
BACK AT IT.
Well, as you can probably tell by our blog and internet presence, or lack thereof, we are back at it here in Bugtussle. We're planting, and starting seeds and getting ground worked up. It's a lot of work, a little soreness and a very welcomed feeling. I've never suffered from any sort of seasonal depression, but I have to say that I come close to it towards the end of February. I get antsy to get back in the dirt, to correct my mistakes. I get cabin fever. I wait, with baited breath, for the first favorable forecast so that I may finally start working towards feeding people.And we're going to feed a lot more people this year, which is very exciting. Our CSA is filling up quick and we have many returning members, several new ones, all great families. We had a shiitake party/workshop a couple weeks ago! That was great––we'll likely do it again next year. We've got thousands of transplants in the greenhouse ready to go into the garden. And we've done a lot of garden work to get the season going. Anyway, here's a bunch of pictures of what we have going on. And as always, bare with the sparseness of the blog through the growing months––we'll do our best to give regular updates!
IN THE GARDEN.
This past week, we:Started the sweet potato slip bed. We save the best shaped sweet potatoes all winter, bury them under sand and then cover it with wire mesh and a plastic tarp. Once the bed heats up and the potatoes start to sprout we will remove the plastic. These little sprouts are what we plant to get sweet potatoes!
We potted up tomatoes into 4 - inch soil blocks (since they are getting too big for the smaller blocks, but it is still too cold to plant them).
Jesse and I put up plant variety markers in our own garden.
We cut up our seed potatoes and planted nearly a quarter acre. Yukon Gold, Kennebec, and Red Lasoda.
And tonight it is supposed to FROST! Oh, spring.- Hannah.
