Why hello there.

No matter how many times I do this, the first sprouting seed of the year seems like such an impossible miracle. All is takes is soil, water, light, warmth and hope.

The farm plot begins

This past weekend my wonderful folks came out to help me prep my new 20'x20' plot at the farm. From what I had been told it had been left fallow for a couple of years, so it needed a good tilling. Enter my dad - the Superman of rototilling.

It started out as a hard bed of grass, mint and weeds (much like the plot pictured next to it.)

One hour and four passes later, the soil was deep, clean and velvety.

This morning I ventured over to put in the first three rows of Stuttgarten Reisen onions and Chantennay carrots...

...while Z made the obligatory mud pies and got herself good and filthy.

Bliss.