A few photos.

These photos are from earlier in February.



Various things to plant and Marmalade.



J trimming the Lemon Tree.



Buddha's Hand Citron from our tree. We used it in Orange, Lemon & Citron Marmalade.

Sunshine on my face and dirt under my nails.

Ah, sunshine. The rain is just enough to make our soil soft but not muddy. The temperature is the perfect place of being cool enough that I am not sweating too much while I work but warm enough to not need a jacket. The beginning of "that other season" in our two seasoned climate.
The new year has brought the adventure of attending multiple California Rare Fruit Grower Scion Exchanges. We took the opportunity to visit friends and family from Santa Rosa to SLO and even to introduce them to the "room full of people fighting over sticks" as we jokingly call it.
J has been working hard grafting the scions onto our existing trees in the back yard. He has even been wearing his headlamp at night to do it!
Yesterday we did a work day at EPACS in the garden run by Collective Roots. Olivia and I tapped the dirt out of pots in the greenhouse and J worked on draining a pond.
Back in December we tossed some poppy seeds (red oriental poppies and pink hungarian breadseed poppies) all around the yard. They are coming up all over, and hopefully they will be beautiful!
Soon I will be starting some Zennias (including green), Bells of Ireland, and some sunflowers. We have already started Marigolds (which will be fed to the chickens for brighter yolks), petunias, and various heirloom tomatoes. The tomatoes will be sold at the Earth Day event coming up in Cupertino!
This afternoon we planted carrots (french round and plain french), red and white radishes, turnips, and kohlrabi. We clipped the chicken's wings, and J covered my hoop houses to protect the soon to be seedlings.
If feels like spring is upon us, and I am looking forward to a fruitful harvest!