The Pennsylvania farm is under heavy ice in December. But not before we got cover crops of rye and vetch on all our fields. The vetch is a legume that fixes nitrogen in the soil. This combination grows into a luscious green carpet that gets turned under in Spring to feed the soil.

Winter in Pennsylvania is used for building and equipment maintenance, 40-hour workweeks, vacation for family, and quiet, quiet, quiet!

(Sometimes there's a little baa-ing though.)

Florida is busy recuperating from the 10" rain we had last month. Fields were under water and many young plantings were lost. This is usually the easy time between the hurricane season and the threat of frost in January. But El Nino has other plans in store for us. Weather - every farmer's obsession. In your home do you have The Weather Channel constantly on your TV, while the sequential radar rolls across your computer screen, and the weather station on your desk updates every 15 seconds? But replanting and harvest go on, and there's still a great selection coming out of sunny Florida. Check out the beautiful wildlife on the farm and Tom's great cabbage.