What have we been up to?

Well for one thing, we named the farm! Thanks to our friend Ean High who suggested Evening Song Farm nearly a year ago. After much farm name brainstorming and careful fermentation, we went with the first suggestion we got, so meet Evening Song Farm, and check out our new website www.eveningsongcsa.com set up by Kara's older brother.

We have done a lot since last updating the blog, not the least of which has been taking shamlessless cute pictures of our puppy, Echo.



We also experienced out first farming bummer in our new location. Though there didn't seem to be a lot of snow on our caterpillar tunnels, Ryan took the time to clear off the snow from one of our tunnels. We intended to clear the other one the next day, but instead part of it collapsed! Bummer!


We use these to start early carrots, and then once the carrots are established we move the structure over our tomatoes to get them started early. Alas we spent a grumpy day clearing the collapsed section and then temporarily mending the broken hoops.



Now it looks fine, but when the snow melts we will have to replace the broken hoops and patch the ripped plastic.

We finally headed to Pennsylvania to retrieve the last of our belongings from the Sterling valley-- our goat, Lmno, our inoculated mushroom logs, and some other goodies. I threw a tarp and some hay in the back seat of my car, and Lmno had a goat palace in the back.



Though while I drove she was more interested in navigating.



We got a buddy goat for her. The new goat's name is Zeah ("Zee-uh"), and she is a Nigerian Dwarf goat, small with high butterfat.

Around the farm, we finally put the roof on the wash station shed, hung a door for the greenhouse, started our hotbed (with horse manure) to provide heat for our greenhouse starts, started our first round of plants for this spring, built many seeding tables, and myriad other winter tasks of season planning, marketing, and other construction needs.