We’re closing in a full week of no serious precipitation, and it feels as though our world is finally drying out. Spring showers are nothing new, but coming on the heels of last summer’s torrential rain, and it’s a recipe for—you guessed it—mud. One of the first lessons Steve and I drilled into our new apprentices Lisa Chalif and Michael Mottola was the importance of not getting the farm trucks stuck in the muck. Fortunately, they’re quick learners, and the mud finally seems