This is my boy child Gideon, on our last visit to Baltimore. Baltimore was a lot nicer than I remembered it.  There was so much to see and do!  And so clean!  Gideon loves riding that scooter, and on the farm we are cursed with no paved surfaces (concrete jungle ain't all bad), and so when we are in the city, he, and Anna, are on those things everywhere we go.

Baltimore had so much amazing food!  The artistry was astounding!  So much great ethnic food, and baking, and street food....  I highly recommend a foodcation to the city, if time and money allow.  You will not be disappointed!

My girl child Anna enjoying some of the diverse street art and performance art the city has as well.  Kids, adults, everyone can be amused and amazed by all the goings on in a city like Baltimore.  Here we are in a very famous park there called Washington Square Park.  Some would call it the beating heart of the city.  Never a dull moment there!

Back at the farm.  Our friends the Kubecks had a little lamb, whose mother rejected it.  So they had to bottle feed it, and keep it in the house in early spring so it would be warm.  They also had to take it with them if they went out, because it had to be bottle fed avery couple hours!  So, after bringing it with them to church, they brought it over our house for a visit as well.  (Or: Ian lets his hair down)

The very first thing we "seeded" this spring, was the ginger and turmeric.  Spring came so early (at first) this year, we got quite impatient for the stuff to arrive!  When it did, we set it out in the trays (as seen above) and turned the heater on for the first of the season, that day.  Anna and Gideon got right into it.....  they were super helpers!   This orange root you see, is the turmeric.  

Straight from Hawai'i, to my little daughter's hands in Maine.  Organically grown by Biker Dude, on Oahu.  So cool.  We put it in these trays, and cover them with dirt... stack them up in our incubator box, and keep them around 85 degrees, until they wake up.  It can take as much as 2 months, just to see the beginnings of a sprout show above the surface.  Then they get set out on tables in the heated greenhouse, till the soil is warm enough in the other greenhouse, to plant them in the ground in there.

On Thee Same Day that we decided it was time to start planting in the field, it started to snow.  I had to go to the city, but I told the guys "just keep going, it will stop soon..."  Emily took this photo right when it started.  This is the first time we have ever planted, in the snow.  The guys bailed out, when there was too much snow to see the ground, and they couldn't feel their hands.

Spring in Maine!

In order to continue planting onions, I had to till in the snow. 

It may have been inconvenient, but it sure was beautiful.

Inside..... is a whole different story.......

How many plants on the tables can you identify?