Which means I'm about to explode with anxiety. I was met with this in the field just a few minutes ago:
The Boy said "oh.my.gosh. That's a red berry!"
There is so much to do. I have to talk to my girls and get them lined up to work, order containers to put them in, make sure the signage is ready, start marketing, book groups to come pick, make sure I have coloring books, line up things with the dairy, order shirts, deal with The Manic Husband, update the website/facebook/twitter...you get the picture. My mama always said that hindsight is 20/20 and I believe her. If I'd have known I'd be responsible for all this, that I'd be running an agritourism farm, I'd have definitely gone to business school. Ninety percent of the time I feel like we're the blind leading the blind. And every year we add something new and different that we've never done before, like produce and the CSA, so we can't get comfortable and think, yeah, we've got this. So while The Husbands running around like "Wow! We'll have strawberries in two weeks!" thinking about eating that first ripe one, I'm like "wow, we'll have strawberries in two weeks" thinking about all the things still on my to do list.
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| First one of the season! Yikes! |
There is so much to do. I have to talk to my girls and get them lined up to work, order containers to put them in, make sure the signage is ready, start marketing, book groups to come pick, make sure I have coloring books, line up things with the dairy, order shirts, deal with The Manic Husband, update the website/facebook/twitter...you get the picture. My mama always said that hindsight is 20/20 and I believe her. If I'd have known I'd be responsible for all this, that I'd be running an agritourism farm, I'd have definitely gone to business school. Ninety percent of the time I feel like we're the blind leading the blind. And every year we add something new and different that we've never done before, like produce and the CSA, so we can't get comfortable and think, yeah, we've got this. So while The Husbands running around like "Wow! We'll have strawberries in two weeks!" thinking about eating that first ripe one, I'm like "wow, we'll have strawberries in two weeks" thinking about all the things still on my to do list.
I am excited though don't get me wrong. I'm ready to see people out here enjoying the strawberries and having kids come though the farm tours. I'm excited about our open house and the recipe contest and possibilities there. I'm ready to start packing CSA boxes and (hopefully) hearing about people enjoying our vegetables and seeing pictures of the awesome things they cooked with them. I'm excited about that wonderfully fresh sweet scent that you can only get with real fresh local strawberries.
That being said I hope you're counting down the days like we're counting them. Come out and see us in a couple weeks for those first ripe berries. Bring your kids out to pick while you're on spring break and let them run off some energy with us. We'll be glad to have you!
That being said I hope you're counting down the days like we're counting them. Come out and see us in a couple weeks for those first ripe berries. Bring your kids out to pick while you're on spring break and let them run off some energy with us. We'll be glad to have you!
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