Current Happenings on the Farm

With a break in the weather, we are feeling like we can move outdoors more with various tasks. We are in the second week of April and the weather has allowed for us to do the following things…

1. Transplanting spinach and broccoli from the covered hoophouse to the outside hoophouse (which will eventually be covered with a shadescreen). I decided to go ahead and transplant these plants because it is supposed to be so hot later this week (no slow change in temperatures) that the “spring plants” will get too hot during the day…even with both doors of the hoophouse open. And the night temps seem bearable. I can always cover these with a frost blanket if they need more heat at night.
2. I pulled some weeds and turned the soil in the raised beds of the garden.
3. I moved some composted soil into the unused side of the hoophouse. It was so full of worms which will help rejuvenate that soil.
4. We also (surprisingly) had a swarm of bees this morning. It was a huge swarm hanging from a tree limb that reaches over the current pig area. This made the extraction a little tricky. But the pigs learned that bees sting!