wet dog days

The rain had been relentless! The crops are green and healthy (so are weeds), but they’re behind, significantly behind where we’d expect to see them at this time of the year, especially given how early we got a lot of the stuff in the ground. Here, it’s not really a business issue - for a csa the crop delay is tough, but we’re really a market garden. School just got out, summer people are just beginning to arrive, we can sell the stuff later.

It’s more of a morale issue. You can wait out the showers, make sure you’re wearing wellies, all that stuff, but when it rains every day and you’re a farmer, you’re just going to get wet. A lot. More often than not these days, I feel like Rita and I have a lot to commiserate about - wet, muddy, waiting.