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As a small, start-up organic farm we live daily the adage: “you make the road by walking.” So many challenges lie ahead and each requiring its own unforeseen innovation. As another season winds towards its conclusion we take a few cautious glances backward to the road behind us. Amid the slowly composting piles of what we have left undone, it is sometimes hard to see our way clear to a pat on the back. But there is cause to celebrate.

The summer is on: weeds, orchards, vines, pigs, and pastures all need attention. These are the days when to-do lists grow faster than they can get checked off. The machines need repair, the tomatoes need staking, but Friday we plan to be in the berry patch taking our sweet time.

PICK YOUR OWN BLUEBERRIES: My favorite blueberries are the early ones, tartness and sweetness together. The patch will be open Friday, July 4th, and be open every day after that from 10am-6pm. Like strawberries in June, it is first come first serve and we all pick until the berries are gone.

The music is back on. Peeper frogs, territorial barking of the foxes, and orioles in the peach orchard: spring is loud around here.

IMPORTANT LAST NOTICE: All future farm news will be sent through our farm website: www.thehickories.org. If you have still not signed in as a member of the farm, please do so. From now on I will be doing everything through the website.

Now to the real dirt: We can all sniff the summer and the seedlings in the greenhouse are jumping out of their trays.