Busy as a bee!

Just a fun picture from yesterday's sunflower picking!

Dahlias!

This is our first year with a larger quantity of dahlias.  We still have lots to learn and we are definitely favoring certain varieties.  Here are a couple of pictures:

More to come:)

Beautiful Blooms

This was our first year growing tulips to sell.  We have had beautiful bouquets and we are learning lots about the different varieties especially the double tulips.  Our next additions will be peonies and lilacs.  Flowers brighten every day! What a blessing:)  The cherry trees in bloom also added more beauty to our days along with the apple blossoms.  Here are a few pictures:

Happy Spring

It is amazing that the first day of Spring is here!!  We still have snow although it is disappearing every day.  I am looking forward to lots of new flowers being planted soon.  Hopefully we will have success  with our ranunculus.  The ranunculus is a beautiful flower that is easily grown in California but is a little harder to grow in Michigan.  Here are some pictures from The Flower Fields, Carlsbad, California.  I visited there with my daughter several years ago.  The flowers were beautiful!

Dahlias

I spent an afternoon at Summer Dreams Farm enjoying the beautiful dahlias.  We hope to plant some next spring so now we have the hard task of deciding which ones to choose.  Here are just a few pictures:

wow!

A Busy Summer

We are nearing the end of the cherry harvest.  Just the balatons on Tuesday and maybe part of Wednesday.  So far lots of good quality cherries however the prices are quite low.  Most of our cherries went for juice.  Try CheriBundi when you see it:)  Here are some pictures from the summer thus far:

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                                                        Enjoy these days of August!

New Things on the Farm

As we are in process of moving to the farm full time I am learning that I have more things than I thought and that even though I am giving away things to prepare for living in a small space there is always more stuff you really can live without.  So now I really need to reduce the stuff I have packed by half!  Never a dull moment when you move!!

A new approach I have for my "blog" is to post a picture every day relating to what I am doing on the farm.  Hopefully I will get a working computer moved there soon so I can post daily.  As I am at the other house right now I will post five pictures from last week:

Trilliums in the woods.

Tart cherries in bloom.

Close up of cherry blossom.

Repair on a water line.

Getting the landscape fabric for planting.

Planting flower pots.

White lilacs.

A busy week with lots of beautiful flowers and progress on a number of projects.  Have a great week!