The view from inside the dark, dry barn, looking out onto a lush, green, rainy barnyard. The barn doors are so tall that the frame that they give to the view appears to taper at the top, giving the scene a little of the aspect of an ancient Egyptian portal into an earlier time and …
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Asparagus
Here’s a savory, healthful meal idea: Bluefish, medium-diameter broiled asparagus from Wickham’s, and wild rice.
The dog has a hard time resisting the clover-filled grassy area along the edge of this freshly-plowed furrow.
Gerardo laying plastic mulch.
We customize the mulch to each crop. In this case, the strawberry field gets white-colored mulch, which will help to conserve water and reduce the need to do weeding later in the season.
On the blackboard this week.
Tomato plants
Tomato plants growing in the field, with trellised apples in the background.
Vintage corn shelling machine
Wonder if there’s something good down here in this vintage corn shelling machine.Wonder if there’s something good down here in this vintage corn shelling machine.
In the pear orchard
Peach blossoms
Planting corn
Getting the soil ready for planting corn. Stay tuned around the 4th of July to see when our first corn will be ready to eat.