Annie is planning now for when you arrive this summer. Just a few weeks ago she got out the greenhouses and started winter sowing seeds. In the garden she has been planting peas, carrots, and mesclun.” It’s only March!” “Are you crazy?” Are just a few of the comments we’ve heard, but in Maine the ground has been thawed for a while, we haven’t seen snow since early February and the crocus have already started to bloom. So why not start planting cool crops like peas and broccoli raab and greens like kale, radicchio, spinach and mesclun?
Over the winter Annie increased the number of hens here at the house so that more of the eggs we use on the boat this summer will be home grown. We are very excited that this summer joining the chickens and garden will be bees. That’s right BEES!!! By the end of the summer we should have fresh from the hive honey (we can’t begin to tell you how excited we are!!). Around the property Annie has been doing a major pruning job on the apple trees in hopes that the apples grown will be big enough and sweet enough to eat and make pies or good cider.
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