We had a White Christmas!

Good morning friends!
We hope that everyone enjoyed a wonderful Christmas season this year!

Our Christmas was spent in Northern Virginia this year, and we had a bit of a slow start getting there due to the weather. We had planned to leave earlier than we did, but the heavy snow delayed us by two days. But, we had a really nice Christmas with our Son Mike and his family once we arrived. The roads were cleared by the time we left and the scenery along the way was just lovely! The Shenandoah Valley is pretty anyway, but snow covered it's so beautiful! Hopefully I can post a few photos taken on our trip. (if I can get them downloaded-still not great at this)

We didn't go into DC this trip, just mostly stayed in and enjoyed visiting. I did visit an extremely nice Market close to my Son's home named Wegmans, and they really had anything anyone could imagine wanting for meal preparation. Cases and cases of fresh seafood, meats, etc. plus-- Organic selections of anything you could want throughout the market. That really got my attention! They even had wine tastings going on in their wine shop, and of course I sampled them all and purchased a couple of bottles of red (for medicinal purposes of course:) To sum it up, this store is like Whole Foods on Steroids!

We returned to find that we did sustain some high winds while we were away, but had just a few things blown out into the fields. No big deal though. We leave the farm rarely, but when we do our neighbors all watch each others property and their dogs pretty much roam our place all the time. (where there is no deer fence) The dogs alert everyone to strangers and we like that! They are pretty large dogs too which is somewhat intimidating in and of itself. We are grateful for our small community of neighbors.

Now that we are home and getting ready for another new year, we are focusing on our farm's upcoming CSA season. We will need to get all seeds ordered very soon, plus any soil amendments necessary, repair and service our farm equipment and implements, make necessary repairs to our packing shed and soon to be farm pavilion, determine logistics for our CSA deliveries, and, well you get the idea..there's a lot to be done here over the next few months. We will get done what we can you can be sure of that. John and Barry have already repaired the two high tunnels, and enclosed the Haygrove tunnel, so that's good. I would like to have a few raised bed constructed near the Greenhouse, but I know that is way down on the list of John's priorities.

On this 6th day of Christmas, I will say "bye" for now. As the new year rolls around keep us in your prayers, you surely will be in ours as always. We wish for you in 2010 good friends, good health and many blessings!

Happy New Year from Doe Run Farm!