looooong week

mother's day weekend was a VERY busy weekend for all of us at the farm. friday and saturday was the landis valley plant sale. saturday was also the last winter market at eastern market AND the opening day at quarryville growers market.

monday, tuesday and wednesday was spent getting everything ready for the weekend - last minute transplants, getting signs ready, getting final counts of plants, getting boxes ready for customers to use to carry their plants, making a list of everything that needed to go to the plant sale, finding tables and chairs and which ones were to go where, the list goes on. and let's not forget the plant sale is just a side thing...there is a farm to run! we also planted another 250lbs of potatoes, another 24lbs of spring onions, another planting of salad beds, the farm stand was opened for the season selling eggs and asparagus and seeds were started.

thursday morning we took three truckloads of plants and supplies (tables, chairs, tents, etc) to landis valley and set everything up. thursday afternoon we got ready for saturday markets. we picked, washed and packed spinach, kale, head lettuce, herbs, rhubarb, spring onions, mustard greens and asparagus. we usually do all that the day before market, but since we would be at landis valley all day friday, we had to prepare for market on thursday.

friday we were at the plant sale all day. when we first got there, there was last minute set up to do. then we just let stuff sell. some customers had some questions, but for the most part, they knew what they were looking for. there was a lot of time spent just restocking and reorganizing plants. we also sold our bird seed, wheat berries and wool. we sold a lot of plants, though our numbers were down from last year. there was four of us at the sale all day, including my mom who we bribed to help us. :-) that was one eleven hour day...

saturday...eleven hour day number 2... dale went to eastern market. my mom and i went to quarryville market. allyson and becca went to landis valley. eastern market was a very slow market day, not bringing in nearly what it had at other winter markets. quarryville market did pretty well. we sold just about all the produce we brought with us, plus a good bit of meat. after markets, we all went back to the plant sale. again the numbers were down a bit from last year, but still not bad. when the sale was almost over, it looked like a bad storm was on its way. we all moved very quickly to get things loaded up before the rain. we got back to the farm to unload all the plants and head home after a looooong week.