Here are some of the ways winter is for us at the farm. On the one hand, we’ve got only a very little bit of harvest or delivery work to do, so it’s a bit vacationlike, with extra morning coffee, long breakfasts in no hurry to get out there. On the other hand, when we do get out there, it’s really cold. And we get so soft and weak over our sweet cozy breakfast time. And then we get this amazingly gorgeous amount of snow and remember some other kind of work that doesn’t always need doing in winter but only when it snows like this…we call it the Kirsop snow cardio workout. Every two inches of snow or so, we have to get out there and get the snow off of five greenhouses. This entails repeatedly pushing a broom or one’s hands along the top of the inside of the greenhouse and sort of bouncing the snow up and off. It takes about an hour for the two of us, less if a friend stops by at the right (or wrong) time to help. We get our heart rates up, break a sweat and huff and puff a little, which is good for us.

One way that winter is new for me this year is the extended share program that ends this week. Thank you for participating and making it a success. It has been fun to keep up the deliveries and newsletters. I plan to continue the weekly news all winter long, posted on our website, kirsopfarm.com, and also posted on everydayolympia.com. So wherever your winter takes you, you can check up on your favorite farmers. Even if the news doesn’t detail exactly what we’re doing (long breakfast, no hurry) it will detail what we are thinking about and planning for the upcoming season. You can have a birds eye view of the decision making process that goes on here in winter between husband and wife, farmer and farmer, and when we disagree, how it gets resolved. Coin toss. Arm wrestling. You know.

P.S. If you would like to throw in your two cents towards planning for next season, go ahead, send us an email or phone call or snail mail or pigeon or Telepathy.