Rain, Rain---Go Away!

Well, I think we've gotten enough rain to last awhile. I can't imagine how Noah must have felt! Even though we still have to pick--rain or shine---I'm getting tired of the muddy mud boots, muddy floors and wet clothes! I'm very thankful that horrible hailstorm only got us on the tailend of the storm and we only recieved pea sized hail, still the vegetables didn't care for it much.

The pumpkins and watermelon plants are doing quite well now. Getting very big with the moisture we've been having. We picked the first of our cut flowers to sell. Beautiful colored plume celosia and multi-colored zinnias. We'll be taking those to our BriarCliff Market tomorrow. The zucchini and yellow squash are coming on full-force too. We're now picking those daily to avoid the Baseball Bat Syndrome!

We'll keep you posted on any upcoming events! Kids Night at BriarCliff Village will be the 18th of June. It should be alot of fun. Come on out and bring the family.

Just a little tidbit of our children and who we are.

My oldest son Jeff and oldest daughter Shayla run a couple of our stands in Farmers Markets, you've probably met them. Couldn't do it without their help. My 2nd oldest son, Jesse, works the BriarCliff Market with us (17). All of our younger children come to one market or another to see where our produce is sold. Josiah (13), Jonah (11), Sarai (9), Salome (7), Selah (6), Shemaiah ( 4), and Shekinah (1) (she doesn't get to go to market because she doesn't like to sit still!) I'll include some pictures to let you see a few of them.

Market Madness

Vegetables are in the full swing of things now. It seems that we can hardly get everything picked in a full day. We have lots of help but there's an endless amount of work that needs to be done besides the picking. I'm going to enclose some pictures of the farm and what actually goes on here. We have our fun days too, not all work! We are really hitting the markets hard with all the fresh greens you could possibly want. The tomatoes in the greenhouses are doing well for us as well. We tried alot of new vegetables this year and we're quite happy with the result of them all except one---dwarf pak choi. We'll do the regular size one next year! Hope to see you all at the market soon!