The Farm

Saturday, August 4th, 2012

Tough Day at the Farm Working with Grandpa

July 22, 2012

 Irrigation Pond

 Goats and Ginney's

 Bell posing for the picture

Mulching the Asparagus with the tractor

 Raspberries

 Broccoli and Cauliflower

 Cabbage

 Melons

 Onions, Herbs and Hot Peppers

Cabbage, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Zucchini

 Second Row of Snow Peas

 Sweet Corn is almost ready

 More sweet corn

 

 

 Tomatoes

 

 

 

 
 The green peppers are starting to come on. They just need to get a little bigger so maybe next week. We also have a chocolate and a purple variety.

Ooooh... our sweet baby watermelons are so good. They will be ready to harvest in a week or two. These are heirloom melons and very sweet.

Our green beans should be here soon and we have tons of them. They are similar to a haricot vert (a thin french green bean) with lots of flavor and crisp.  

Queen Anns lace. There are so many things you can make from this beautiful weed. Check out my last news letter for instructions on how to make beautiful snowflake christmas tree ornaments.

The following three pictures are of the raspberries. See what a few days of sunshine will do? As you can see the raspberry bushes are loaded.  I picked a few for us today and they are delicious! They are a true raspberry from every sense of the word.

Below is a shade structure we put up last week which does two things: 1) it keeps the raspberries and blackberries from getting scorched by the sun and 2) it helps to keep the birds out of the berries.

Strawberry Fields Forever......or so it seems when you are the one picking them:)

The strawberry Plants are looking beautiful this year. With the weather cooling off a bit and the abundance of sunshine we've had we expect them to be plentiful and around for awhile. 

Raspberries and Blackberries are also doing great this year.

It usually takes the third year to get a bumper crop off a bush. Since this is our third year for most of our raspberry and blackberry plants we expect to have a lot of berries to offer at our Market.

We have also planted some new Raspberry and Blackberry Bushes. Some of which are Golden Raspberries. We may get a few golden yet this year but should have a good crop by next year.

 

Bee Hives

We have added a bee hive this year to help complement the natural pollinators in our woods and meadows. Our Bee Keeper, Mariah, is a Vet Tech from the Ft Wayne Children's Zoo. The bees are doing so fabulously at our farm Mariah had to add another hive.