Cycles of the Growing Season

From March 1-mid April: Plant garden flats indoors and sorghum hydroponically, plan garden, sharpen/repair tools, split/stack firewood, repair wagons, clean up herb garden, prune fruit trees and berry bushes, and more. Care of bees begins and continues through October. We also finish up maple sugar season and our fun, cozy, indoor winter projects.

From mid-April-mid-June: Plant large vegetable gardens, repair fences, and plant/care for large areas of onion, garlic, corn, potatoes and horseradish. Fields are planted with sorghum, grains, and beans. Attendance at fairs to sell our agricultural products begins and continues through November. Our 33rd anniversary celebration is the first week of May.

From mid-June through mid-September: Care for and harvest vegetable gardens, fruit and berries. Process food. Harvest/clean grains, mustard, garlic, and horseradish. Hay season. Weed sorghum fields. Harvest honey in September. Farm maintenance projects. During these hotter months, we enjoy swimming in our pond.

Our Sorghum harvest is from mid-September through October: Folks from our extended community family and friends come to help bring the cane in from the fields, cook and bottle the syrup. Our numbers typically swell to about thirty. This busy and fun time includes large group dinners, attending fairs to sell our products, a honey harvest, continued garden/orchard/horseradish harvest and food preservation, harvest and cleaning bean crops and planting garlic. Last year we completed upgrades for a fully steam-processed sorghum syrup!