The columnist with a bucket of harvested salad mix on April 14, 2024 in Laytonville, Calif. (Happy Day Farms via The Mendocino Voice)

Casey O’Neill is a farmer and owner of Happy Day Farms in Laytonville, Calif. The opinions expressed in this column do not necessarily reflect the views of The Mendocino Voice. If you’d like to write your own column for The Mendocino Voice, send your idea to info@mendovoice.com.

In the month of April, all through the farm, plants begin growing, sun tender and warm. Exhausted at night, asleep in my bed, visions of crop plans dance in my head. For real though, the full crush of spring planting is upon us and it’s boomboomjamjamgotime. 

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