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| New sign installed |
Summertime is the best time on a farm. Things are in bloom and the farm is producing a ton of delicious food. These images are from mid May to the third week of June. It's really hot. We're crazy busy.
Love life.
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| Loving this warm perennial garden along the road. These were all started from seed last season. |
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| We couldn't be more excited about bees!!! Our new friend, Lyne, brought over three hives that she will maintain and process honey from. It is a win for both sides involved. Our crops get better pollination, her bees get drunk on flower goodness. And did I mention that there is honey? |
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| Orchard view with strawberries |
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| These guys. Ready for the zombie apocalypse...or the garlic harvest. |
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| evening storm |
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lettuce, collards, kale, chard in the new field. Potatoes growing tall in the back. |
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| Going...Going...We had an amazing strawberry harvest this season. We had over 150 lbs of strawberries and I have 30 lbs frozen and processed for jam. |
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| Peas |
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| Cucumbers are cool. |
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| Sweet potato slips. We ordered 200. We got 300!! |
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| Morning garlic. |
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| It begins. Chinese Purple. |
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| Thai Fire |
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| Eat your greens. |
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| Another section of the new field. |
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| Summer is here.. |
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| One of my new favorite Root Bottom photos. Blueberries, mulberries, strawberries, blackberries. Perennial crops are amazing. |
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| Giant pumpkin volunteer from last year....in the compost... |
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| Tomatoes are almost chest high |
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| We found a forest of baby asparagus. We are potting these up and transplanting them in a new asparagus area. |
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| Seedlings in the barn |
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| Keeping watch |
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| Evening snack. Strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries. |
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| Wild black raspberries collected along the creek |
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| Our new friend, Bree, helping with another hot day of garlic harvesting. |
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| Madison County road work....You had one job... |
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| Our buddy, Tyler, comes on Thursdays. |
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| Our friend and awesome intern, Justin, lives on the farm and is an all around awesome dude to have around. |
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| Can you believe we are STILL burning stuff from the original owners and their hoarding of building supplies! I really think this is the last load after a big push to clean up behind the barn. Land owners for four years and we are still cleaning up after them. |
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| Finished my shadow box of Root Bottom findings. |
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| And sometimes you get to take your "We are way to busy and should hang out more" friends down the river for a dinner cruise. We are so lucky to have so many great folks so close by. |
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I love my "Mason Jar of the Week". I try to showcase what is growing that week around the farm.
Above: May // Red hot pokers, alliums, garlic scapes, weeds, chrysanthemums & irises. #masonjaroftheweek |
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| Red hot pokers, alliums, garlic scapes, gaillardia & irises. |
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Cool: yarrow, alliums, lavender, bolted onions, wild daisies, verbena, scabiosa, iris pods, veronica, pyrethrum, clover, grass & weeds
Warm: echinacea, daylily, coreopsis, lavender, yarrow, larkspur, bolted onion, alliums, iris pods, daisies & pyrethrum |
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| Echinacea, daisies, alliums, yarrow, grasses, iris pods, sea holly & gaillardia. |
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| Irises |
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| Inside a foxglove |
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| Lavender |
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| Morning garden visitor |
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| Along the house |
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| Echinacea |
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| Our mantis army has started making a small appearance... |
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| I am working on another blog just about the HUGE barn renovation that has been happening over the last six weeks on the farm. Cleaned and reinforced a crumbling back wall. It was hanging from the roof and had zero load bearing once the rotten logs and cement blocks holding it up were removed (!) Tore off the front and refinished it. Built raised flower boxes in the front and painted a quilt square to mount on the front. Once the finishing touches are done, we will share many more photos. It has been an amazing experience that I will never forget...or hopefully do again in this lifetime. |
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| Before |
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| During |
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| After. More pictures to come soon with the finishing touches. |
