I guess the 2017 season began for Nancy and me today, since this was our first workday of the new year at the Farm. Actually Nancy consumed most of yesterday checking on orders for annual plant material and herbs to the point of pain. Not that healthy pain that comes from working in the garden; rather that unpleasant discomfort of an almost locked up upper back and strained neck that comes from too long of a period interacting with a computer.
Today is not what you would call a nice day—high in the mid teens with increasing west winds, the kind that keep Old Glory flying straight out, and patchy skies that allow some greenhouse heating—just not enough of such natural warming.
Nancy and Dana work on removing exhibits in the store that were used for Christmas. Taylor takes down umpteen strings of Christmas lights before starting a project in House 1 to add some exhibit/work space by the flood tables. I begin the task of starting to make placards for each greenhouse explaining what types of plants are available within. These signs will be made of wood and painted with special verve by our artist/illustrator, Devona. Even if you don’t read them, I’m hoping that you will find them cute, attractive and somehow adding to the Farm plant-hunting experience. And if people do read them, maybe we can share a little more about plant attributes and a little less about where they can be found.
Today is not what you would call a nice day—high in the mid teens with increasing west winds, the kind that keep Old Glory flying straight out, and patchy skies that allow some greenhouse heating—just not enough of such natural warming.
Nancy and Dana work on removing exhibits in the store that were used for Christmas. Taylor takes down umpteen strings of Christmas lights before starting a project in House 1 to add some exhibit/work space by the flood tables. I begin the task of starting to make placards for each greenhouse explaining what types of plants are available within. These signs will be made of wood and painted with special verve by our artist/illustrator, Devona. Even if you don’t read them, I’m hoping that you will find them cute, attractive and somehow adding to the Farm plant-hunting experience. And if people do read them, maybe we can share a little more about plant attributes and a little less about where they can be found.
A typical Devona-created sign...if you use a little imagination, you can channel a bit of warmth & maybe a hint of aromatic smoke from the FFA cooking pork chops at this year's Annual Celebration of Summer, June 17, 2017.
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