Winter has finally arrived. We have been waiting for 2 years.

Horse drawn implements

Good Life Farm, Interlaken, NY.

November snow

Movable tunnels for growing winter greens, Good Life Farm, Interlaken, NY.

Ginger

Fresh ginger being harvested from a tunnel before a 20 degree night. Good Life Farm, Interlaken, NY

November Lettuce

Still in good shape post hard freeze.

Garlic vs hurricane, The garlic held its ground.

Fall

Leaves are dropping early after the drought.

Lily Season

We had a nice crop but the weather shortened the bloom season and hurt sales.

My Dad grows the best pepper plants from seed. Here's one with this year's first pepper.

Garlic is reaching end of season,onions are juicy, tomato plants and peppers looking good.

Behind the barn in July.

Raised bed garden on July 2, 2012.

Outback

Lilies Again

Sure hope these sell.

Starting

Lettuce is coming up.

Disked!

Plowed in March, disked in May.

May, no more frost!

Slow going

Tough to get into construction in this weather.

Lilies planted

Hardy Garlic

Late Snow

Early Lilacs with late April snow.

Over wintered

Some lettuce made it through winter and the garlic needs rain.

Plowed

Much drier soil this year.

Steel work complete

March has been a month to remember. It started with a visit to Canticle Farm for a look at their winter greens high tunnel. It was 26 degrees and 70 inside the hoops. Then we had 2 weeks of summer weather. It is a scary omen of climate change, but it was darn helpful in getting our greenhouse project going. Of course, our ski season ended abruptly, but Holiday valley gave us a 97 day season, which ended for me on the 17th. I would have never believed we could plow and disk in the second week of march. Now it's March 31, it snowed last night and there's bulbs to plant and more seeds to start. The season is on.

Hoops in place

As they used to sing, "you get by with a little help from your friends". Thanks to Tom for his help, the hoops are in place and looking good.

Garlic

Ya gotta respect the hearty indestructibility of garlic. Nothing eats it but humans.

Panorama

Hoops

My very first hoop bend. Not bad. I hope the rest come out like this.

Spring Project

After the creepiest winter of my life, Spring has come very early. Hope those climate change deniers will finally open their eyes. Anyway, I'm finally building the greenhouse. I dug out about a dozen stumps, plowed and disked the area. To my surprise, the soil isn't bad. I was afraid I'd hit Marcellus shale, which comes to within 2 feet of the surface near the barn.