June 8, 2012

Summer 2012

Summer 2012

Moon and Stars watermelon

$200 pumpkin next to Pilgrim Barbie for scale

Saving tomato seeds for next year

Beautiful Okra flowers on the burgandy Okra

Farm fresh goodness

Randy washing Fairy Tale Eggplant

Fairy Tale egplant

Fresh tomato sandwhich on home mae bread. Yummy!

Hens cdhecking out the new boxes. View from the inside of the coop

Used billboard to cover coop. This is the view from inside

One of the Barred Rocks eati bugs in the garden

Layin boxes com0pleted!

Intern from Project Green Fork came out and helped by picking tomatoes

Zanrinitsa tomatoes, yummy!

One of our FAVORITE tomatoes, Green Zebras

Three boxes of sweet corn

Sugar Baby watermelon

Zucchine blossom

Cowpea cover crop hope it survives this heatwave

Musk melons almost ready

Wonderful cherry 'mators

Our first sweet corn is READY!

Radiator Charle's Mortgage Lifter Tomatoes

Watermelons are getting close

Our next round of sweet corn is starting to tassel

Beautiful heirloom tomatoes!

We had the pasture bush hogged. The place looks GREAT! I'm getting around to pla

We had the pasture bush hogged. The place looks GREAT! I'm getting around to pla

Armenian Cucumbers

Our Danish Leghorn rooster

Making home made wheat bread

Rooster on top of the Egg Mobile

Squash blossoms

Refrigerator pickles and dilly beans

Sweet corn tassles June 8th

squash can be so interesting

More Tomatoes almost ready

Baby melons in the first week of June

Red Creole onions, yellow sweet onions and garlic hanging to dry

Cabbages, cabbages and more cabbages!

Freshly picked Market More cucumbers

Our white potatoes drying after washing them

Washing the squash and cukes

Our baby chix

It is only June but “summer” has started on the farm. Our summer CSA started the first week in June, the temperature is often in the 90’s and the cukes and squashes have arrived.

Author: Josephine Alexander

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