Starting Phase Two

It really was an incredible week for me, kicking off with assembling the plastic layer that hooks up behind the tractor. We laid plastic later this past week in the field to plant our heirloom tomatoes and peppers and eventually for our cantaloupe and other delights as well! The plastic keeps our plants warm in the ground and allows us to be able to plant and harvest early. Other activities included hoeing (of course) the perennial garden, hoeing the weeds from our irrigation system, and planting and covering our tomatoes and peppers! Tanea and I finished off the week by cooking a southwestern vegan fiesta dinner for everyone, though unfortunately no pics were taken of that except for one of Tanea hiding her face... However, here are some great photos from the rest of this week's festivities!

May 14

Our beautiful state flower, the columbine, in our perennial garden. All of us spent
all day in this field, hoeing up weeds. So tedious, but the field looked
so great and healthy afterwards!

May 15

Me and Justin after assembling the plastic layer! We spent the
morning weeding the irrigation system in pie four, so this was
an awesome and fun task to complete for the afternoon.

May 16

Isaac driving the tractor as Katie and Lucia follow behind and throw dirt on the plastic .

May 17

Planting our heirloom tomatoes! Clockwise from left: Kyle, Ian,
Jacob, Katie, Isaac, Chris, Elena, and Lucia.
Such an awesome team!

May 18

Fueling the tractor with diesel. Right after this I got to drive again,
 pulling the plastic layer.  Yes! You knew it would happen.
I may or may not have terrified Isaac the entire time.
Watch out, woman driver!

Bonus Foto(s)

So, got to have several bonuses this week. We had a forest fire in the foot hills due east of us, and the smoke was erie and blew in over us in the field more than once this week. Also, Lucia with her nice car turned farm vehicle, and fresh Grant Farms produce found in my very own neighborhood grocery store! 

Megan with her fire conscious snap bracelet she found, appropriate
for our smoky day in the field, with the fire just west of our farm!

The Rav4 gets er done! Lucia loaded up with heirloom tomatoes for planting
in our pie four field.

Grant Farms rhubarb! Local at Whole Foods, Baby!

It was a great week, I'll say it again. We are definitely moving into a new phase, planting! Clean up and readying the fields is coming to a close and it's exciting to be on to the next things. Have a great week, the last frost date is May 25, only five days away. Summer is right around the corner!

XO,

Val