We finally made it back out to the farm after the holiday break today. We started by helping a friend put up another pole for his pole barn. All went uneventfully thanks to excellent preparation on his part and we were all grateful.
Then we spent a couple of hours at our farm. We walked where the house will go trying to narrow down from "around here" to "right here" for where it will be. We also took a walk back through our woods to see how much easily available rock we could find (lots). Then we dropped off some more accumulated building materials and picked up the light fixtures and seed trays for our seed starting this year.
Most of the afternoon was spent at a seed ordering/discussion gathering where I learned about some new seed companies I'll have to check out and where I met (and re-met) some awesome people who are trying to grow more of their own food too. Community is a wonderful thing!
This evening we assembled our new seed starting stand shelves (just wire shelves from home depot). Tomorrow I'll make a quick run to pick up the chain we'll hang the lights from on the stand and we'll be ready to start some seeds! With a little luck, our onions and leeks will be started before the end of the day.
I cannot express how happy I am to be starting seeds again. It is such a joy to contemplate digging in the dirt again! Soon spring will be sitting in my living room embodied in hundreds of little plants all reaching for the light.
Sorry for the lack of pictures - the camera came along but got lost in the excitement. ;-)
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