Two Spruce Farm: Seed ordering complete!

Welcome to the blog! We just finished our second and third seed orders from High Mowing and Johnny's, respectively (we put an order in to Fedco a couple of weeks ago). Get excited about what we ordered by going to the what we grow tab if you're into that sort of thing. Sorry for everyone who loves fava beans and/or rosemary, we couldn't get a hold on organic seeds for either of those crops despite looking through those three catalogs.

Daniel and I were in different cities while we were doing most of the work on seed ordering so we used Skype a lot- super tedious ("Wait, what page are tomatoes on? Hold on, let me switch screens" etc etc). I think we'd do it in person if we could do it over.

In other news, we've moved into the farm in Marathon but right now we're in the middle of a whirlwind farm tour of the Northeast with our friend Ian (formerly of North Mountain Pastures but looking for a vegetable internship for 2013 so if you know anybody, hit him up), visiting friends at Evening Song Farm in Cuttingsville, VT and Evandale Farm in Pittsfield, NH. We also visited Tuckaway Farm and Greenstart in Lee, NH and Sanborn Mills in Loudon, NH, and are presently holed up in Hardwick, VT at the house of our friend Julian, who works for the Highfields Center for Composting. Lots of links in those sentences but the moral of the story is that we've been seeing a lot of cool sustainable ag stuff and meeting a lot of really cool people.

We're driving back to Marathon on Wed to start (continue) work on our crop plan and building a hoop house, and to start our apprenticeship at the dairy. It's not that we haven't been working on this trip but there has probably been a disproportionate amount of sleeping and beer-drinking compared to the rest of our season.

We'll try to keep the blog updated with pictures & news of the goings-on at the farm, probably lots of pictures of baby mules/ baby sheep/ baby vegetables because I'm pretty sure that's all people look at on the internet anyway (baby animals and organic produce? that's close right?).

Just a heads-up, the below photos contain neither baby animals nor produce, hit the back button on your browser if you want to avoid unbearable disappointment.