Spring is Popping Up Everywhere!

I love when I can walk around and see all of the new life popping up around me. I can finally start to see the new seedlings begin to look like the plants they will soon become and the trees and plants we have planted in the ground start to show signs of growth. I even spottoed a bunny hopping through the yard today. Although I don't like that they eat my garden, they are pretty darn cute. Our dog loves to chase them around, but can't ever seem to reach them before they are through the fence.

The Asiatic Lillies have begun to peak up in the flower bed, along with the Day Lillies and Rose bushes. We planted a young fig tree this year as well. It was just a big stick when we put it in and is now covered with the most beautiful and velvety leaves I have ever seen. Just around the corner, next to the very spot where we will plant our new Oklahoma Redbud tree, the grape vines have begun to grow taller. The garden is beginning to fill out with cabbage, spinach, broccoli, garlic, red and yellow and green onions. There is life everywhere and I love being a part of it all.

Radfield Farms for me is more of a philosophy, a goal for my journey. I like being a part of the food I eat. I like being connected to it, helping it grow, knowing what I fed it and put on it. We have become so disconnected to what we consume, blindly trusting others to keep us nourished. I realize I cannot know everything that I eat so well, at least not at this time, but any part of my diet that I can be connected to is better than no part at all. That is part of the reason for my passion, the other is that I just LOVE to watch things grow. It is so exciting to me to watch a plant grow out of the ground from a seed that I sowed. Then to eat what it produces that helps to nourish me is amazing. It is the circle of life and I love that.

So Radfield Farms may not currently resemble a true farm, but the idea is the same. We believe in sustainable life, in becoming part of the process again, in being healthy and connected. As we say here, we are learning as we grow!

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Tip for the week: Most seedlings should be growing pretty well in their containers by now. If they have new growth, a second set of leaves, you can begin to take them out into the sunshine a few hours a day. This will help them get stronger as well as get used to spending their lives outdoors. In a couple of weeks they'll be ready to plant!