While most of us are excited just to see brown outside instead of white, there is a lot of green poking up in our farm’s potting shed this week. My husband and I own and operate the Food Farm and we have onions an inch high and the tomatoes are showing their cotyledons (a wonderful-sounding word that means the first two leaves of a plant). Our family took lawn chairs out to the greenhouse last week just to bask in the sun and pretend we were on one of the tropical vacations we keep seeing in people’s social media feeds.

Its CSA sign-up time for many of the farms in Wrenshall right now....