May

 The Steel Wheel Volume 1 Issue 2

     Happy Spring All,

        Well It's here. At Last. Spring! The spring crops are in. The Summer crops will be put in soon. The work transitions from the greenhouse to the field. The irrigating, the weeding, the sowing and transplanting have all begun in earnest. The math of the crop plan becomes the real living breathing vegetables, the nourishment of ourselves and each other. Once again seeds mixes with Air, Water, Sun, and Earth to become our food and so through this miracle come another, the one by which Air, Water, Food, and Warmth become us. Here are some pictures from the farm this week. Enjoy and Prepare yourself fro the season's abundance. Remember that we all owe our existence to that magical substance merely a few feet thick, in some places only a few inches, that covers only a small portion of this planet's surface: soil.

Be Well,
Anton
Good Work Farm

I tried transplanting (instead of direct seeding) spinach this year and am please with the results so far.

This years storage onions were planted with the help of perfection minded Judy Zarach in straight rows for easy cultivating, and downright agrarian ascetic

Rye and Vetch provide much of the fertility needs at GWF. These companion crops provide winter cover to reduce erosion, fix nitrogen out of the area so fossil-fuel based fertilizers are not used, and send their roots up to 50 feet down reliving compaction and aerating the soil.

Heat-loving eggplants, peppers tomatoes and squashes are all in the greenhouse, coddled to the nth degree they'll be planted next week after Monday's expected 34 degree (!) night...

...while outside cold tolerant veggies like this red cabbage are told to "toughen up!"

Lastly, I'll leave you with this sugarsnap pea reaching it's tendrils into the sky as its roots reach down into spring's cool earth.