SELLMEYER FARM NEWSLETTER

Wow! What a beautiful day! If you didn't know better you would have thought it was the first of October instead of November! It was sunny and in the mid 70's with a light breeze! Market was pretty good, sold quite a few apples, eggs, radishes, pepers, tomatoes, sweet potatoes and baked goods. We have two more weeks left and it sure would be nice if the weather stayed this nice!
This afternoon after we got home we went out and pulled up plastic mulch and drip tape off of 9 of the raised beds. Now if only all the rest of the beds were done!
Yesterday we went over to Columbia for a little bit to the Small Farm Show and attended the Missouri Vegetable Growers Association meeting. It's always interesting to go to these shows and meet other farmers and hear what they are doing and to get inspired and learn new things! Everyone always wants to know what will we do in the Winter with no farming and marketing to do, well we go to conferences and meetings to try to get new ideas and net work with others who do the same things we do! The first conference on our list is the Great Lakes Fruit & Vegetable Expo in Grand Rapids, Michigan, then either the Great Plains Vegetable Growers Conference in St. Joseph, Missouri or there's also one in Springfield, Illinois at the same time, we don't know yet which one we want to go to. Then there's the Small Fruit and Vegetable Growers Conference that is usually held in Springfield, Missouri, but this year has been moved to the Lake of the Ozarks. Plus the Missouri Farmers' Market Association of which I am on the board, will have their annual meeting and conference, but that has not all been worked out yet as to time and location. And then there's always various workshops around the State that can be attended!