Fall Musings

Finally, I feel like things are starting to slow down at the farm. As usual, the year has been super busy and chaotic, starting with frenetic seed sales at the beginning of the year— online and at Seedy Saturdays. By late January, we were starting our first seedlings inside to transplant into our greenhouses and things just kept escalating from there.

Looking back, I don’t know how we managed. Honestly, this year was a special kind of nuts. In addition the usual farm stuff, we bought and erected a new 50’ greenhouse (love it!), started a kitchen reno (ongoing), painted the outside of the house, had the roof redone (not by me, out of my league), and built a root cellar!

Whew! Needless to say, I didn’t keep all of the balls juggling in the air all of the time. My roadside stand suffered some neglect and I didn’t manage to get to every Farmer’s Market. But you do the best you can do and that’s what we all did.

We had lots of successes too. Our late season warm spell was perfect for ripening the last of the seeds in our fields. In fact, all of the fall crops did superbly. It is a good omen for the upcoming seed selling season, I think. I will be sending out an email soon talking about our new seed varieties and a general Hey! Hi! that our website is all updated. If you haven’t signed up for our email list please do. Here’s a picture of our fall cabbages with a light dusting of snow.

All the best of the harvest season to you and yours,

Sal Dominelli

Sweet Rock Farm