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Cold Frames

p10100281 The cold frame is full of tomato, zucchini, and leek seedlings — I checked this afternoon and although it was only 42 outside, it was 65 inside the cold frame.

It’s still snow/raining, although everything is that bright saturated green that comes with spring in the mountains. The apple trees are just starting to leaf out, and we’re on the look for morels, although no one I’ve talked to has found any of them yet.

The chickens are just waiting for the finishing touches to move outside — they need a fence, and a door to the coop, and a walkway. But we’re getting there. Should have pictures soon.

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