River Valley Farm

Historic Gore Place - A HUGE THANK YOU!! to everyone who stopped by our booth and visited with us and our Cotswold lambs today. We had a wonderful time meeting you all and helping you with your new fiber projects. I do hope you enjoy your fiber and please remember to call and visit when you are in the Berkshires. We would love to see you again - perhaps you'll even bring us some of your projects so we can see what you've created. You can also meet all the sheep that contributed their wools to make your project a success!  

If you can't come by and you do need more fiber, just drop us an email and we can get more to you.


CSA Seeding

As you can see above, we spent all of today in Waltham, MA at Historic Gore Place's Annual Sheep Shearing. We brought two Cotswold bottle lambs with us as an educational exhibit and most of our wools from the store. The weather was great and we had a lovely time. The children loved the lambs and the lambs certainly seemed to enjoy the attention and petting.

As the time is now right and the weather has cooperated, I spent most of the previous week seeding and transplanting out in the field. I transplanted lots of herbs and lettuce and seeded kale, collards, mesclun lettuce mix, carrots, beets, turnips, dill and peas. Now all we need is some rain and that is forecast for the next few days. With a few days of rain, our seed should start germinating in about a week or so. Then the weeding begins.... weed seeds like rain just as much as our planted seeds do. I will begin seeding the squashes, cukes and melons in the greenhouse and pot up the tomatoes and peppers. They will all begin to get planted in the field mid to late May weather depending. Feel free to come and help or come to hang out and watch and learn.