It can be a farmer’s best friend or worst enemy.  I love a cool rain as much as anyone (especially just after I’ve planted several hundred plants in the field), but I feel for all of the farmers whose livelihood has been destroyed by tornadoes this spring.  When we first started farming, my mother was worried.  Worried about the unpredictable nature of farming.  Being raised on a farm herself, she knows that things like high winds and hail can wipe out a summer’s worth of work.  It’s a gamble, for sure.  In the few short years we’ve been here, the weather has been mostly good to us.  We’ve been lucky.  Our hearts go out to all the farmers out there who haven’t been so lucky and we hope they will have the ability to pick up the pieces and keep doing what they love.

I’ve spent some time cursing the weather this month.  I want it to be warmer. I want it to be dry so I can actually get out there and work.  Oh, and I want to wave my magic wand and make the weeds disappear, but that’s another story.  Unfavorable weather slows down production.  I want to have twice as much produce available right now as I do.  But really, we are the lucky ones.  There are so many who have nothing.  And then I look again what I have, and I am thankful.

~Kelly