i started this little farm 7 years ago. the first year, spring arrived a full year early. i sync up the season and the calendar by when my tulips bloom. they used to always bloom right around mother's day. within a week either way. i always noted this, because they dont do that well in my garden, so i cherish them. but they are too attractive a target for well meaning kids when they are in full bloom on mother's day. some years i spent the day on the front porch just to keep an eye on them.
since that first year, tho, spring has been later and colder and wetter every.damn.year.
i had not been worrying thaaaaat much about climate change as it related to me, as we are not really going to bear the brunt of most of it. rainfall is not that big a worry as i have unmetered city water. and if i use too much, it travels through the sandy soil the back into the lake from whence it came.
high temps are thought to be the worst threat, and that is one reason i love the heirlooms that you started me out w, my friend. i figure i will have land races going of my favorite crops.
plus i am in the bowl of lake michigan, in a micro climate that is well buffered.
but these springs. oh.my.god.
after that first year, it has been worse each year. it has taken such a toll on my seedlings, despite ramping up my weather weather mitigation every year.
not just the cold, but the clouds. all day, day after day.
things are fine under the light, i move them out to a hoop house or my new, little lean to greenhouse, and BAMMMMM!
i had such a great spring, then i lost almost half of what i moved out into the weather.
i have a cardboard model of my dream farm building.
a mini barn.
it aint gonna happen now, methinks, tho there might be a hail mary out there.
but i have to have something, and soon.
i at least need to invest $2-30k in a good year round prefab.
another $5k for renewables to run it.
if i dont do it, this is never anything more than an expensive hobby.
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