Transitioning Into Summer

We are still here at Ryan Farm, watching plants grow (a slow process, I'd say) and watching a new batch of sea water evaporate in the salt greenhouses!

The bees are bringing in new colors of pollen, and Brady is waiting anxiously to see the first drop of honey in the hives. The baby apple trees have baby apples, and Tina Tiny Home is still as cozy as ever. 

I planted hundreds of new flower starts this week. Zinnias, amaranth, sunflowers and statice were all tucked in to their new home. The new round of dahlia tubers are finally sending up their tender shoots too. The heavy rain we had last night was an answer to my little flower farm prayer. It was much needed after a bit of a dry spell.

Before that rain came, you can see in the following picture's background that Brady worked hard watering the plants by hand, while I took pictures of myself. I'm such a hard worker. 

We had a big week of flower deliveries to Seattle and our first Friday Harbor farmer's market! We also made salt deliveries to a new store in Seattle called The London Plane. Check them out if you haven't already!

There are some new kids in town. The white flower is my new love, "Orlaya." She should be a great bouquet filler this year. And we also have some butter lettuces that are getting all buttered up for the farmer's market. 

The evenings still deliver the most beautiful sunsets. We've still been enjoying evening walks, and running around with the farm dogs.

It's been a good June for us so far, we hope yours has been too. Come see us at the Farmer's Market in Friday Harbor this Saturday 10-1! 

In true, not-so-dreamy-romantic farm news, Lily drug out a whole deer carcass from who knows where the other day, and proceeded to drag it through a bed of flowers. She promised that she wouldn't do it again.