After a long and somewhat cold winter break we have all come back to the farm and seen all the important work that needs to get done. For many of us this involves harvesting as we have not seen our beds over the past few weeks. When we harvest a lot of food from our beds one question we have to ask is how to use all of it. Because our market was not until the end of the month and a lot of cabbage was harvested we had to find a way to make sure it did not go to waste. In order to assist us Juliana Stewart came in to teach us about wild fermentation. We created a few batches of Kimchi and Sauerkraut which I am personally excited to taste soon.
In terms of farm maintenance there are still a lot of things that need to get done. For many of our beds we noticed that the potatoes looked to shrivel up and die. After digging up a bed to see if things were still growing our potatoes seemed to remain relatively healthy. In my bed a lot of the cover crop we planted failed to grow over the winter and we need to replant the area. Overall now is a time to make sure your bed is fully planted so we can have plenty of things to harvest in the coming months. Included is a picture of our group and some of the beets we have yet to harvest.
-Julian
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