Greetings!

So often, friends and customers ask us what farmers do during the winter months. Many farmers in this area choose to grow through the winter, but some of us prefer to take a couple of months off of growing. As we wind down our season and prepare for traveling and spending quality time with friends and family, we’re busy tying up loose ends around the farm. There’s not much growing these days, but we still have a lot of work to do! Our biggest tasks at the moment are completing our 2020 crop plan, ordering everything we need for the coming year, and dividing the hundreds of clumps of dahlia tubers we have stored in our basement!

As we work on these projects and continue making wreaths for market, we’ve been spending a lot of time reflecting on the 2019 season. We’ve been talking about how to make our processes more efficient, work more enjoyable, and how to better manage our crew. At this point, Two Boots is a fairly established farm, so we’ve got a lot of our practices and methods finely tuned, but we run into roadblocks when it comes to communication and making sure everyone is on the same page, especially when we have members of the farm crew who only work once or twice a week. So, we’re brainstorming ways to make it easier for our crew to navigate farm tasks, and considering creating a guide to Two Boots Farm standard operating procedures.

It’s not all work around here, though! Thursday night we celebrated the end of the season with Vietnamese food and duckpin bowling, and we had such a great time together. It really is a joy to work with such a fun group of people.

This week brought the first snow of the season. It was short-lived, but beautiful while it lasted.

If you haven’t picked up a wreath yet, now is the time to do so!

This week at the JFX market we will have beets, carrots, hakurei turnips, potatoes, sweet potatoes, watermelon radishes, framed pressed flowers, and wreaths.

Elisa has been hard at work making lip balm, bath salts, and bath bombs using oils infused with our flowers! These make great stocking stuffers, and we’ll be bringing them to market for the rest of the season.

Upcoming Events

Wreath Workshop at Larder, December 8, 2019: tickets

We’ve been dividing dahlia tubers, and hope to be able to sell some tubers to the general public in the coming months for the first time!

Almost everything is out of the greenhouse for the winter, but we keep seeding stock for spring flowers through the winter.

December at Two Boots