Friday, January 21, 2011

Should this blog be revived?

The Fresh Roots Organic Growers blog has been quiet for quite some time. Last we spoke, hop plants were popping out of the ground... that means last blog was around May.  Since then I've spent a summer lamenting the struggles of growing commercial hops, harvested a modest crop in the fall, put the fields to bed for the winter, co-created a group of hop growers (Michigan Hop Alliance), and made sales.  A lot has gone on.  The chickens are in full production... we get about 17 eggs each day even in the middle of winter.  The guard dog, Perle, is now about 90 lbs and owns the full 10 acres.  Fortunately, she doesn't seem to leave it.  She is now a woolly beast and loves the snow.  She's out there right now playing in it even though it is only 8 degrees out there.  During the winter months, I've started renovating the basement to put in a guestroom and bath.  Our current guestroom is becoming a nursery, since Sarah is expecting a son in May.  Another farm hand. 
The question I pose to you all who may be reading (or that may be none) is this: Should this blog be continued?  I will try to update more often.  We got a new web connection and it makes updating a lot easier.  We have a lot that is going to happen this year: son being born, barn raising, tractor purchase, spring planting, hop stringing, new crop development, and I'm sure a lot of things I haven't thought of yet.  If you care to read up on the events here, please comment.  This blog could sprout up again this spring with the other crops on the farm, or we could consider it a loss.  What do you think?

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