Making Bread

It is officially the first day of summer and it is raining and cold...thanks northern Minnesota.  Unfortunately, farming does not stop when it is raining.  I started my day with tying tomato plants, they have grown so much, and I can't believe how quickly.  There are some that are as tall as me, that is not saying much as I am pretty short but at least it is an impressive height for a tomato plant.  I found a cherry tomato plant with 32 tomatoes on it; the cherry tomatoes will be the first to ripen and John thinks there will be some tomatoes by the second week in July.  With the weather we have been having I feel very sorry for the Minnesota farmers that don't have hoop houses, we were able to start growing stuff in March and there are a lot of farms that just started planting crops a few weeks ago.

I went over to Grant and Christy's house to learn how to make bread.  Christy makes the most incredible foccacia bread and she agreed to teach me the recipe.

Onions and garlic

Adding flour until the right consistency

Ready to let rise

Forming the loaves and getting ready to bake

I had to leave before it was done baking but I am sure it turned out awesome.   In the last week I have seen some pretty cool things around the farm; here are a few pictures.

Huge snapping turtle

We cut this cabbage a few days ago and new leaves are already coming up

Dew on the nastertium leaves