Here we are! Our first farm blog post!

After approximately four years of planning, attending many workshops and farm visits, completing requirements for the Missouri Entrepreneurship Grant, and finishing construction of our customized high tunnel...we're off! During the past seven years Farmer Karl has been experimenting with blueberries, tomatoes, raspberries (yet to produce), pumpkins (gorgeous), lettuce, radishes, and a variety of other successes and failures.  We are a small scale operation with many processes yet to complete, but we are in for the long haul.  To get this "tour" started...here is a pic of Farmer Karl and two of our five grandsons after picking pumpkins from last summer's surprise pumpkin patch.  I say surprise because the drought caused us to feel the irrigated patch that was all but lost would not produce.  Much to our delight, we were able to harvest several beautiful pumpkins to sell, and also gave our local elementary kindergarten class of 50 students a pumpkin to take home! Maggie is a kindergarten teacher who has always wanted a pumpkin patch, so this certainly delighted her and her  students! More to come from the farmer himself...