News From the Farm | May 13, 2013

Our crops are all a bit ahead of usual for early May. Here you can see that our first planting of sweet corn is already knee-high and growing fast.

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We have some very pretty cabbage this spring!

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On any given morning some people might be picking and others packing vegetables. At the same time there will be people trellising tomatoes, or weeding a field. Ricardo is using the tractor to lay two lines of drip tape into each bed, in this soon-to-be tomato field. In the foreground is a healthy field of potatoes.

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In the week before Mothers Day our flower crew picked almost 3,000 bunches of flowers!

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This is the crew that picks your asparagus. There is hardly any asparagus left, so they are moving on to potatoes.

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Look at the size of those peaches already! Zepeda is tying ribbons to the trees in hopes that the birds will be scared away from the ripening fruit.

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