Rousedale Farm: Organic Produce, Eggs, and Honey - Fallston, MD

What's happening down on the farm and egg delivery is back! Are you kidding me?!?!  How can it go from 80 to 20 in little more than 24 hours.  Not only that, I just came in from outside and there's snow on the ground and we have blowing heavy snow at the moment. You know how you feel with such drastic temperature extremes?  Our plants feel the same. With the prediction of freezing temps tonight, I went out to put covers on the plants we have in the field.  That was interesting in 30 mph winds.  Then tonight I went out to check to see if the covers were still holding and found a half inch of wet snow weighing them down onto the plants. It was tough to figure out what to do. On the one hand the plants were covered from the frost, but the covers were now soaking wet from the almost two inches of rain today and weighed down with a half inch of wet snow and falling on the plants.  I decided to just pull them off. I was sure I heard a cabbage plant whisper,"thank you."   The good news is that the asparagus has started!  We will let you know when it's really taking off.  Congrats to Cindy Martin Keefer our "When will the asparagus show it's face" winner.  Wear that Rousedale Farm t-shirt proudly Cindy. We hope to get the seed potatoes in the ground, maybe by the end of the week.  We have more onions to plant too.  Since it's been pretty wet, Vicky has taken some of the seed I was going to sow directly and started them in the house.  Hopefully that will help us stay on schedule and we'll just pop them in the ground when we can.  I do have to say that the strawberries are doing much better than I thought they would after the frigid winter.  Hopefully they continue so we can have some nice fresh, sweet berries by the end of May. Don't worry, I, hopefully,  have the berry loving raccoons under control.  Remember last year when the masked marauders ate every single strawberry we had before I realized what the heck was going on? We will begin our egg delivery this Thursday evening 4/17, and then deliver on the first and fifteenth of every month.  Our Rousedale Farm eggs delivered right to your door!  Delivery will be $4.25 per dozen. Usually I will head out from the farm around 6pm, Figure on sometime between 6 and 9.  Once the route gets established your delivery should be about the same time every other week.  If you're interested in egg delivery, email us and let us know: 1..How many dozen you would like (you can always change the amount) 2..You're address 3..If you won't be home, where the eggs should be left and where the money will be.  Just to give you some ideas, customers in the past have left their egg money: Under the mat In a shrub In the mailbox Stuffed in the gutter pipe Under the garden hummels hat In the beavers teeth Taped to the belly of a rabid dog One giant step to the right from the front door, then 3 steps to the sprinkler, make a three quarter turn and hop six times to the only solar light that still works, one step to the left, turn the sun dial to the 3 o'clock position, a hinged door on the sun dial pedestal will open and the money will be there. etc....

Locally Yours, Vicky and Stev