Produce and progress!

Garden progress continues as we are now beginning to pick lettuce and squash! The watermelon and cantaloupe, as well as the pumpkins have all developed good sized fruit on them, which can only mean that soon we will be enjoying the sweet, glorious goodness of the watermelon and cantaloupe and making funny faces with those pumpkins! We will continue to keep you updated on the garden and farmstand details.

We are nearing completion of our gift shop, which will be opening very soon! Keep an eye out for that announcement, too! So many new and exciting changes are going on around the farm, intended to make your visit the best it can be! We hope to see you this summer or during our annual harvest festival. Whether it is your first visit, or your 100th, we strive to make you feel at home here at May Farms. We pride ourselves on making every event special for you, our guest, and we want to ensure that your time with us is enjoyable!


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Wheat harvest is well underway and things are looking pretty good! The countryside is filled with large equipment and Byers is a hub of activity. Summer is in full swing, indeed. I love this time of year, watching the crops that were planted in spring filling the fields with row after row of rich green plants, while knowing that the wheat planted in the winter is being harvested at this moment. I can nearly smell the bread baking from here! There are so many good things that come from this time of year. Right now we've got spinach, radishes, swiss chard and some okra (more to come very soon) for sale.

The weather has been cooperative lately, which is a nice change from June when it was too cold or wet to do much planting. We're a little behind with the garden for that reason, but it's catching up fast! Our new underground water system helps immensely, as we can control how much water everything gets. It makes caring for that big garden of ours pretty simple, we can water with the simple push of a button. We typically have had to flood irrigate the pumpkins and corn maze, but out new water system makes that practice obsolete. Despite heavy rains earlier this month, we haven't had much rain this last week, which means we can get back out in the fields for weeding and other daily tasks. We've been lucky to not have hail or terribly damaging winds this season, either. We're hoping this trend continues!

Great news! We are adding a gift shop to the farm, and it is really taking shape, we will have to post some pictures when it's done. There are going to be some really great items in there, and we will keep you posted with Grand Opening details. There's lots of other changes going on around here, too. This is such an exciting time around here! More details to follow soon, stay tuned!