Pepper Place Market, May 2009

Here are some photos of our stand at the Saturday Birmingham market, the people's market I'd call it since you have to raise the food yourself in order to sell there. I was surprised at how many people asked us if we actually grew the food ourselves. Proudly, we can say "yes."

Yesterday, we sold out early - we need to get to work growing more! It was a lovely day for the market and a great crowd. For our first two markets, it was cloudy and raining at least some of the time.
There are very few folks with flowers so I am going to try to emphasize that in my garden planning.

There is quite a variety of foods available at the Pepper Place Market. You can come to get your fresh veggies and go home with artisanal breads, fresh,local cheese, or green eggs!

winter finally loosening his deathly grip...

We're nothing if not ambitious this season. We've invested in some good irrigation to do the majority of our growin' in our lower field, alongside (what I'm calling) Fancy Creek, and now that winter has finally moved on, we got lots of planting and transplanting to do. Yay!

Spotted in the greens patch! Get back to work! Those broccolis aren't going to weed themselves!


AH, SPRING! And the strawberries are very much IN at the moment, which has made for lots of crepuscular pickin' sessions after work. We're trying to freeze 30 gallons.

The greenhouse: baby plants germinating & taking their first little breaths of CO2. Waiting for that frost date, which seems so far away - April 15th seems outrageous for Alabama, but we tend to have late cold snaps. We'll no doubt break down and put out tons of things and then run around covering things at least once.

The Farm in the Snow

Yes, here in AL we do have snow! One lovely Sunday morning, Joe and I woke up to find the farm blanketed in white. Alas, it did not last long but here are some pics of the farm in the snow.
(Ok, so it was only 2 inches for about 10 hours but, heh, exciting nonetheless.)

Salvador loves his little house that Joe built.

"What is this crazy white stuff?," Fancy asks.

Even parts of the creek and pond were frozen over.

Joe does love Biddy afterall.

The chickens experience their first snow.

Laying in the snow!!

The garlic- no harm done.

Well, the start of another season is well upon us. We've spent the last several weeks starting seeds & preparing the soil for planting, among many other things. Yay!

When the inlaws visit, crazy things happen

Currie, Farmer For A Day. Someone should really do something about our dog thing.

spotted: scooter, the possum. welcome.