March 12, 2008

First - don't forget to check out the New Way to Buy under the Photos and Information tab.  It's a way to have the vegetables you want when you want them without having to figure out how to get to a farmer's market.  Please e-mail us at reverencegardens@gmail.com for a sign-up form.  We're also soliciting suggestions on pick-up sites in the Grayslake and Gurnee (Illinois) area.  If you belong to a church, civic organization, fitness club, or other place that can serve as a produce pick-up point, please let us know!

You may have noticed some changes to the website.  Progress on the site has been slow, but steady.  Check out the new recipes and the listing of seed sources as well as the listing of the inputs used on the farm. 

On the actual growing side, the lettuce and cabbage seedlings are up and reaching for the sun and the summer seeds are arriving on a daily basis.  And, even though snow is still on the ground, the sun is shining more and the birds greet me with their songs whenever I leave the house.  I still haven't been up to the farm yet (the farm is actually about twenty miles from where I live - not optimal but there you go - you work with what you have) but since the ground hasn't thawed yet there isn't much I can do up there.

In fact, I won't be doing much around here either.  My darling husband has agreed to tend the seedlings while I take a too long and too late vacation south to visit friends and family.  I had to stuff vacation in between the two classes (at two separate colleges) that I am taking and the end of my winter job working as a contractor in the corporate world (some really great people at Zebra!).  I keep telling myself it isn't so awful since it's been so cold and snowy that the season is getting off to a late start in any case.  Mostly true, though there is an element of wishful thinking and rationalization in there (one of my classes is a psych course in case you weren't able to tell from the psychobabble...) 

More later - time to go pack!