Spring.

It must be spring, officially.  The sun is out, and things are growing in the garden...some good, some bad.

First the good.  The bees are hard at work.  Go bees!

Second, the first pea plant has decided to flower.  This is one of the plants that was started indoors, then spent a few weeks under a row cover, and has now been out in the open for the last few weeks.  Go peas!

And then the bad news: the pests are on to all the delicious happenings at the MCF.  What I used to call the cabbage moth is actually a Little White (Pieris rapae), an invasive from Europe that thrives all across North America, including the Miller City Farm.  This one (below, on the kale just L of center) showed up today, flitting from kale leaf to kale leaf, leaving single yellow-green eggs that will soon be unstoppable green caterpillars.  I guess the kale are headed for the brazing pot now while we still have them.