Back at it!

Today started a new season for me at the farm!  Joel had me moving bins of compost around.  He will take the compost and use it in a 1/3 1/3 1/3 mix of compost, worm castings ("A convoluted mass of soil, mud, or sand thrown up by an earthworm or lugworm on the surface after passing through the worm's body.") and peat moss.  This mixture is then used to transplant "plugs" (small seedlings in tiny trays) into bigger containers.  It has rained a lot in Maine over the last few months and many farmers have had what they planted outside so far rot because of it, so Joel has held off on planting.  In doing so the small plugs which I would just normally plant directly into the fields from the trays, have outgrown their little slots and now need to be planted in bigger trays in order to save them from dying.  The fields are still pretty water logged and it looks like nothing but rain for the near future.....I am excited though to be back on the farm!