The past couple weeks Justin and Danielle have been weeding the strawberries. This is tedious task that involves sitting on the wet, cold ground, digging your fingers into the cold soil around each strawberry plant, pulling out all the weeds that are trying to choke the strawberry plant. They did this for approximately 2200 plants. And we are proud to say that the strawberries have been liberated from the weeds! We are praying that they set fruit and turn into deep, red, exceptionally amazing sweetness come early May.
If you value your life, don’t try and talk Justin down in pricing for a pint of strawberries this season, because he might just give you an ear full of what it took to free the strawberries from the weeds.
Danielle weeding strawberries. Look down the bed of strawberries, past Danielle, and you will see a lot of weeds that need to be pulled!
Justin and Danielle weeding Strawberries. Thank them, because the ground is cold and wet, even so the job must be done!
Justin wanted you to see just how dirty ones hand gets weeding strawberries!
In between rainfall and strawberries, Justin and Danielle have continued working on project, “Get rid of muck from the propagation greenhouse.” We will soon have new and perfectly level greenhouse benches. After the french drain ditches were dug and filled in with gravel, Justin and Danielle leveled all of the spaces for the greenhouse propagation benches. I hope to soon upload a series of photographs detailing their project. This photograph is a sneak peek of our propagation greenhouse.
Meanwhile, Carl and Julie continue harvesting trees for both a Pavilion and a Farm Vacation Rental Cabin. We are cutting some HUGE White Pine trees that are so elegant – tall and perfectly straight – and these trees might just be a “Timber Framers” dream tree.
Carl cutting the “wedge” that is facing the direction where he hopes to fell this white pine. He is getting better and “Supreme Forrester” would be proud of him!
The completed wedge cut in the white pine. Next he will do the plunge cut then finally cut the tab to fell the tree. No pictures during the next phase of felling this tree because I am too busy praying during this phase of tree cutting!
The white Pine tree already limbed, bucked and ready to be dragged out of the forest to our sawing area.
