Customers love our carrots, already at market people are asking when this year's carrots will be ready. And while they seem like a substantial vegetable, their growing process is anything but vigorous- in fact I'd have to say it's downright fragile and a wonder we ever have carrots at all!

Above is a photo of our first tiny carrot seedlings poking out of the ground this week. Carrot seeds take a while to germinate (2-3 weeks depending on the time of year) and when they finally do they are so tiny you can barely see them. In the meantime the more zealous weeds have no trouble getting a jump on the delicate carrots...

The little guys in the above photo were just weeded this week- carefully, so as not to disturb the actual carrot seedlings. They'll be weeded again, likely 2 or 3 more times before their tops are big enough to shade out some of their competition... If all goes well hopefully we'll be eating carrots by late June/ early July!

We hope you can wait until then, but when you do snap off your first bite of a new carrot this summer think of this photo and the carrot's humble beginnings- how these slender plants (smaller than blades of grass!) were tended and cared for until they formed their big, crunchy, delicious roots!