I finally removed the row cover from 2 double rows of brassicas. On the left is primarily cabbage and on the right is brussel sprouts (with a few red cabbages in the front). They are looking great! Some of the cabbages were damaged early on from some insect or other. That [...]
OK, so I opted not to show a picture of the chicken harvest. Martin came by last Saturday to help me reduce the number of roosters I have. Slaughtering animals you’ve raised yourself must be the quintessential farm experience of connecting yourself to where your food comes from. I imagine it is [...]
Better late than never, we finally started getting melons this week. I find it quite hard to tell when they are ripe and we end up having them split and fill with insects. The parts of the melon not affected is still fantastic. Here you see 3 varieties I picked this afternoon: Halona at the [...]
Finally! We get to eat sweet corn from the garden. After years of negotiating with the raccoons, we’ve come to an agreement that I can harvest corn for ourselves. I have to say, it is amazing how much space this stuff takes. I thought I might have enough to give a couple dozen to CSA [...]
Despite the fact that most of the crops in the garden are considered vegetables, a good number of them are actually fruit, botanically speaking of course, such as this tomatillo pictured above. Here’s a little photo sweep of some garden “fruit”. I apologize to those on dial-up trying to look at all this [...]
Today the whole family went to the market. Above is a picture of me with a much expanded market stand. I brought way more stuff to our fledgling market this time. The market is really small and I am the only vegetable vendor at this time. Last week I sold out [...]
