Busy Big Lickers!

Good day! Whew.. let me catch my breath for a minute! As you can see from our blog post we have been very busy! We have met quite a few of you at the Umpqua Valley Farmer's Market where we have been for the past three weeks (see photos above). Asinete and I decided that instead of trying to plant 6,000 tomato plants perhaps we could sell a few hundred through the farmers market. Our heirloom tomato plants have been well received but still after three markets now our greenhouse looks just as full of tomato plants as when we started.... oh well that will mean plenty of ripe fruits in a few more months! You can look forward to Brandywine, Black Krim, Green Zebra, Striped German, Pruden's Purple, Cherokee purple, Sungold and Roma tomatoes in your CSA share! Hooray!
Also Big Lick Farm was blessed to receive funding through the Umpqua Community Development Corporation with a start up business grant. With this money we were able to get our tractor, 65 fruit trees, and our John Deere riding mower (photo above) with a small trailer that will save us many miles of walking each day as we move crops from the field into the pack shed by the time CSA season starts. Of course with extra machinery comes extra cost of mechanic services!
Last in the news for this posting is that we got our pump into the river! Pictured above is our neighbor/friend and farming guru Buck. We spent Thursday down at the banks of the river getting the pump in, primed and connected to the electric meter. Of course now that the rain has come again we have not had to rely on it too heavily yet but soon enough we will!
Have a great weekend! Don't forget our first CSA delivery will be June 4th!