It looks like the late summer heat wave has finally ended but when will it rain? The cool almost crisp mornings are a nice reminder that fall is quickly approaching. You wouldn’t think so by looking at the thermometer last week. It was hot as blazes. The poor fall plants have taken a real beating. It seems Josephine has spent more time dragging around hoses and watering everything than anything else. It has been over a month since we have had any rain here on the farm. We’ve seen it rain all around us but nothing here yet. So with the late heat and lack of rain our variety we had planned for this fall might be a little limited but what we have will be delicious.
Carmen and Chris digging sweet potatoes
So our friends Carmen and Chris came down from Minneapolis and stayed a few days. Not only did they lend a much needed helping hand it was great to spend time with good friends. Truth be told they are marriage friends to me, Josephine knows them from her college days, but they a real nice folks and great company. Carmen’s husband David (unfortunately couldn’t make this trip) put together our website for us. I’m glad to be able to call them friends.
Everyone that stays here puts in a little sweat equity and Carmen and Chris did a lot to help out. They were here just in time to harvest sweet potatoes. They did a great job clearing the vines out of the way. Then with a borrowed tractor from Van at Flora Bluebird Farm we used a sub soiler to split the ground open. Almost popping the taters out of the ground from there it was a quick dig to get them up. We were able to harvest about half the sweet potatoes with their help. Jo and I just finished up the rest Sunday.Checking out the first row
Ten 100 foot rows should get us well over a ton of sweet potatoes. So if you need sweet potatoes come see us at either the Cooper Young Community Farmers Market on Saturdays or (occasionally) at the Tuesday Oxford City Market. Hope to see you there.
