What's up at the farm - early April edition

Since the newsletter isn't going to be published for another week, I thought it was time for another farm report to keep everyone up to date!

• The new metal roof is completed. The construction crew had the 2 layers of asphalt+1 layer of cedar shakes off and the new metal roof on in just over 2 and half days. Wow.
• The clean-up crew (mostly R, with some help from Dad and T) is still muddling along. Actually, there is just one area that has a pile left over. And, of course, there are plenty of nails looking for tires to deflate.
• The pork buy is largely distributed - it's always a relief to complete those.
• Taxes have been (and still are) taxing R as he works to complete them - that's why he's typing a blog post - got to do something different for a few minutes.
• We are finding that we have outgrown the number of coolers and containers we have (again). Yikes.
• The tomatoes range from 2 inches to 4 inches in height right now - approaching transplant stage in many cases.
  
• The peppers and eggplant are just getting started. Rosemary are cute little things - and always so slow to get going.
• Found a little bit of spinach that did overwinter. But, the wind did a number on most of the covers this year. That's the way it is sometimes.
• We were shocked to discover that we only had 10 packages of frozen veggies left in our freezer from last year's efforts to store up. Hm.
• Rain might be nice about now. Now is the time when we might like a little rain to store up for later. But, if prior weather patterns are any indication, we'll start getting it when we want to be in the fields more.
• We are contemplating trying to put together a Tom Sawyer Day that doubles as a fund raiser for the Food Shelf. Stay tuned (and feel free to weigh in with suggestions for dates, etc)