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Hi everyone! It’s me, Maria, with a friendly reminder not to panic because winter WILL be over soon. That’s right, in just a few short days we will see the first ten hour stretch of sunlight of 2020 and we can bid farewell to the dreaded Persephone Days. [This is the period of time during which we have less than ten hours of sunlight] This means that by the end of February we will be feeling the influx of more sunlight and the energy surge that goes along with it. This will also be our first week in the greenhouse since last summer, and will bring some very welcome warmth to our days. If you’ve never been in a sunny greenhouse when it’s thirty degrees outside, let me tell you…it’s FABULOUS. Warm, humid, bright, and spectacularly alive with the smell of growth and promise. And while we can’t get the real thing right now - you bet I’m going to fill this newsletter with as many greenhouse pics as possible! Not much else is going on except some very not fun office work. Managing AR/AP, working on our month-to-month cash flow, organic certification renewal, loan requests, mortgage paperwork for the farm, and long-term financial planning. We squeeze in the fun stuff when we can, which includes our crop plan, greenhouse schedule, marketing plan, and other actual farming related plans, lists, schedules, and dreams! I have added a couple sections to this newsletter, with the aim to humanize us, your farmers. It happens frequently to us to run into market customers at the store, or for us to run into people that we only know through life or work transactions (think chefs, servers, the plumber, that incredibly nice woman who works at the post office etc..) and I keep getting the sense that we all tend to generally forget that these folks, people we know but not know personally, do have lives, hobbies, and talents, outside of their profession. So I’m adding a reading and listening section; what am I reading, or what have I read that I recommend, and what am I listening to? This could be a song, artist, or podcast. Every once in a while I’ll add in some fun facts about your farmers. And as always, if you have any thoughts I am more than happy to read them! Email me at farmers@mxmorningstarfarm.com Now it’s about time to get on to some pictures, don’t you think?
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