Farm Updates: Evening harvest
It’s the start of summer and things are busy here on the farm. The months of April and May are our prime planting season, and it was especially dry this year. We hustled to make sure that baby plants survived without rain - running drip lines and moving irrigation was a daily chore. Now that we’ve had a few inches of rain, we can see the plants really start to grow (and the weeds, too!). So, now begins the next chapter of our season: weeding and harvesting.
The best times of day to pick flowers is the early morning and evening when the day is cool. Most of our early season harvest is put up to dry - flowers and foliage to be used in future wreaths and arrangements. I took a few shots of the field the other evening of some of what’s in bloom: yarrow, ammobium, and rat tail statice. It’s a fun farm task: the summer harvest begins.