The air is holding the damp chill that comes on a drizzly autumn day. Its a good day to dig out the slippers and get some things done inside.
Its been a while since I have posted and for some good reasons too!
For one thing, we have been totally crazy busy:
and another reason:
We are thrilled to have a new little farmer on the way!
Not that that means I haven't been able to blog, but it has definitely changed my summer a lot!
Not that that means I haven't been able to blog, but it has definitely changed my summer a lot!
So what have we been up to?
I will share some pictures of our last little while on the farm.
I will share some pictures of our last little while on the farm.
Our washing station got a fabulous upgrade. This is our new tent and we have said over and over how we can't imagine not having it. Trust me, washing veggies all day in the rain is not very nice, and when you add wet and cold little farmers its pretty miserable! This tent is amazing!
Our view from the harvesting station
Red Russian Garlic. So, so, so, good! I am a lover of garlic, but I never knew just how good garlic could be until I had it fresh and juicy from the garden. Wow.
Matt harvesting our heirloom Petrowski Turnips. We are really very pleased with these. We had to bring the seed up from Missouri but we will definitely be growing them again.
Bunched Multiplier Onions ready to ship out.
Some of our heirloom rainbow carrots, Atomic red and Yellowstone.
Rainbow carrots ready for bagging. Yum!
We have been harvesting steadily through the summer and are learning a ton! So far we are really happy with the quality we have been able to grow, but there is a lot of room for improvement in the efficiency area. We are slowly gathering ideas and plans for next year.
Me and little farm girl have managed for carve out a bit of time for horsing around!
And, she has been eating her very own watermelons this summer. I have never liked watermelon until I tried these. They are really sweet!
Little farm boy is always up for a truck ride!
Matt bringing the tractor home from haying. The bale spike he built worked awesome!
Happy piggies (Star, Anna Rose Rosie-ella, and Black ear) looking for a treat. They have recycled so much of our garden waste!
The hay at home. It was a big job but Matt enjoyed it so much!
I thought this was cute. My machine parked next to Matt's. I had to make some repairs to the tent so I brought it out to the man zone.
And I have to admit, I have been moaning about the last couple days, quite badly. Like worse than Matt was last winter when we didn't get enough snow for snowmobiling.
With another little farmer on the way I knew Charlie would have to sit for another year. He is an awesome little horse and loves to work. I felt like with all the time off he would have, I should see if there was someone out there that he would be a perfect match for.
It was a very hard decision to even list him, but I really wasn't sure if he would sell, especially with hay prices so high right now, so I felt a little better posting him.
I put a cute little video of him up. It turns out he is the dream horse for lots of people and after a few days he had 17 people lined up to look at him.
So, yesterday he went off to a really wonderful new home. I feel really good about where he went, but I still feel like I lost a good friend.
But it turns out, a drizzly fall day is a good day to have a pity party too...
