Well, actually it wasn’t a dream for us; it was a reality! We took the girls (Sammy & Jess) to San Diego after Christmas for a vacation. That’s right, a vacation. No conference, no convention, no meetings about corn mazes, corn yields or haunted houses. While we were there we were able to visit a number of restaurants and our favorite, by far, was the Irish Pub. Wouldn’t it be great to have a microbrew here on the farm . . . Wouldn’t it be great to have an Irish Pub on our property . . . Wouldn’t it be great to . . . Yea, that’s California Dreamin’!

Even though Bloomsbury Farm closed for the season at the end of October, we remained busy making fudge for holiday gifting. Our most popular flavors this year were Maple Walnut, Chocolate Peanut Butter and (no surprise here) Pumpkin. We take the orders, make the fudge, and then ship it out for the customers. We even had an order sent to Hawaii. At first we were concerned that it wouldn’t hold up to the warm weather. But remember how cold it was here? It was even cold in Hawaii, so the fudge made it there without a problem.

If you aren’t familiar with farming, winter may seem like a slow time of year since we aren’t planting or harvesting. But now is the time of year we move the grain we harvested from the bins and haul it down to Cargill, Penford, ADM and Quaker. Our days start at about 5:30 am when we load the semi with grain from the bin, head over to the appropriate location, wait in line to unload, return home, and do it again. Actually we make about three trips a day before 5:30 pm rolls around and we call it a day. Let’s see, two semis, each holding about 900 bushels of grain, each making three trips a day—we’ll be repeating this most days until March when the planting activities start the whole process again!

Next month we start checking over the equipment to prepare for planting and the opening of Bloomsbury Farm for 2010. I’ll keep you posted on how things are going. –Dave

 

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