So this is the last weekend the farm stand will be open for the 2018 season. It’s been a long run this year – almost a little too long. And for the big send off, Mother Nature has decided to provide a wonderful blanket of snow. I’m not ready for this much snow, or the extremely cold temps that have been hampering outside work this past week. It’s just too early.

AROUND THE FARM
Despite the weather, I was running about the place this week, trying to get everything put away and secured before the storm. Did what I could and dealt with the most important stuff, so I can only hope that it’ll warm up again for a while so I can finish getting stuff put away for the winter.

IN THE FIELD
Was doing as much winter prep this past week as I could. Still lots to do, with about one full week worth of work to have it the way I would like it for over-wintering. The veg I have this week is pretty much all brought in from farms off the mountaintop.

FROM THE COOP
There are two bits of news regarding the chickens.

First, Spunky, Little Red, and Squeaky were sent off to live with a family that has a small flock of chickens that they keep as pets, where they can live out the rest of their days. I’m rather happy about this, as I had been taking care of those three for so long it would have been very unhappy to do what will be happening to the rest of the chickens shortly.

Second, I was finally able to get my Poultry Processing Certification and insurance for retail sales all sorted out. This means that if I decide to, I will be able to sell on-farm slaughtered and processed poultry. I still have a bunch of stuff to figure out, but if you would like more information please feel free to contact me (by text is best).

OTHER GENERAL INFO
Given that this is the last weekend open for 2018, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you who came by the farm this season. I truly appreciate your support.

The current plan for next season is to run for basically the same amount of time as this year, with a rough estimate of starting the 2019 season some time mid to late May. But that is still a ways away, I have loads to do and figure out before then, and even see what new things I might want to do for next year.

In the meantime, since I’m not sure I’ll be posting any more updates until some time in 2019, I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving, Christmas and holiday season, and a happy New Year.

That’s it for now. Hope to see you all at the farm soon, or some time in the spring. And thanks again for making it another successful year on the farm.