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Rainy day

Today’s rain is allowing us to take a break from the outside work, to hopefully catch up on our planning, and take a deep breath. 

Matt has been working on converting a 10’ x 20’ car canopy into a greenhouse, as well as building a couple of top-bar bee hives from scratch.  In the meantime, I’ve been preparing beds, getting our first batch of seeds started in the small (8’ x 10’) greenhouse, and getting the rest of the perennial crops into the ground (the latest were artichokes and more blackberries) ahead of the rain.

We have a relatively short growing season here on the northern California coast (our place is about 1 mile inland).  The farmers markets in coastal Mendocino, where we are, run from May to October.  There is so much to do, that we are glad we still have a couple of months to get ready before the markets start… although we know the time will go quickly!