Upside down chicken coop. In early March we had winds near 60 MPH blow this chicken coop over
Tomato seedlings in the greenhouse
Growing herb starts for our spring plant sale
Anna planting potatoes
Cooper eating the first strawberries of the year
Bottle baby checking out a tray of herbs
Our new buckling, Brownie
Apple blossoms, fingers crossed
Robin & Tony harvesting chard
Josephine (R) and her mother Guin (L) bagging greens for the CSA
Lower field with red clover
Komatsuna freshly harvested and ready to be rinsed
Crimson clover cover crop in the apple orchard
High tunnel completed by 5PM
High tunnel framework almost complete by lunch break
High tunnel build, laying it all out
High tunnel build squaring the corner posts
Josephine (L), Howard (C) and Connie (R) harvesting strawberries
Found a use for old data disks, crow deterrents.
High tunnel complete
Cool spring means slower growing cabbages
Early spring apple tree
Robin spraying the apple trees with kaolin clay
Multiple hands make short work of setting and pounding t-posts
Apples with their first coat of kaolin clay
The spring garden looks good
So far, the high tunnel tomatoes are looking good
Randy driving the tractor as we cover the beds with Bio 360
Josephine and some freshly picked Hakurei turnips
One flat of strawberries
Bush beans coming up in the field
Single leader cucumbers in the high tunnel
Connie, Randy’s mom, with a bucket of fresh picked strawberries
A quick buckwheat cover crop on the left, beds waiting for planting on the right
Bed of squash, with teff grass in the left path and buckwheat in the right path
Our newest employee, Roger, cleaning out old chard beds
Anna, loading up freshly harvested cabbages
Second field planting of tomatoes all staked and ready for trellis twine
Cucumber season is here!
Sunflower dog, Winston posing with a sunflower on his head
Another salamander find
Robin, working in the wash/pack building
Cooper caught his first catfish.
Nathan (L) and Roger (R) harvesting some onions
Tomato picking season has begun
Laying out the onions to finish drying and curing
Randy using the under cutter bar to loosen the soil for easy carrot picking
Teff grass in the pathways helps keep the soil active, and is much faster than mulching with straw
A salamander sighting
black swallowtail caterpillar on our fennel, parsley and dill
The crew working hard cleaning carrots L to R Anna, Josephine, Robin and Connie
Cow pea sunflower cover crop mowed on the left as we prep for summer beds
Our late summer cover crop is just getting started
Trying out melons in the high tunnel
The winter squashes are really growing well.
Two beds of cherry tomatoes in the foreground and alternating beds of squash and okra in the background.
Quick pickle trials
The islander bell peppers look good so far this year
Sunrise and a little Canadian wildfire smoke makes for a spectacular picture
Okra season is nearly here. Okra flowers are beautiful. It is in the same plant family as hibiscus and cotton
Georgia enjoying her rest on a nice bed made dried onion tops
The perfectly twisted carrot
The sunflowers and cow pea cover crop is ready to mow
Yellow rind watermelons hiding in the field
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Jo’s excited because the first round of fall beds are made
Butternut squashes hanging out on the trellis ripening
First pass of disking in the cowpea and sunflower cover crop
Sorgum, buckwheat, cow peas and sunflower cover crop
With all the July rain our late summer cover crop has done really good
Anna sorting tomatoes for markets
Ann (R) and Josephine (L) trellising tomatoes. We use a modified Florida weave
Starting the tractor work before sun up
Josephine holding up part of the irrigation she is putting together
Putting the biodegradable/compostable plastic on the last ten summer beds
Josephine with all of her okra picking kit
It’s not all hot work. Here is Cooper hanging out in a water tub
Mowing down the summer cover crop of sorghum sudangrass, buckwheat and cow peas.
Sometimes you just gotta help a goat out. This is Peanut riding in Jo’s truck
The butternut harvesting has begun. Here is our newest employee, Monica harvest the Avalon butternut squashes.
Fall transplanting and seeding have begun. Here is Anna (L) and Monica (R) transplanting Napa cabbages
Fall work crew L to R Meg, Anna, Josephine, Robin, Monica and Henry in front
Running the sub soiler through the field where the spring crops will be planted
Josephine and Cooper having fun at the Delta Fair
The fall pole beans are growing. We hope they put some beans on before it gets to cold
Meg with a couple of the pumpkins we harvested
Fall mornings can be spectacular
Kale and more fall crops
The fall crops are coming, shouldn’t be much longer before all sorts of greens
Fall crops are looking good
Sweet potato harvest is completed
Harvesting the collards before the morning dew dries
Bush beans we pull the whole plant out then pluck the beans. Here is Anna (L) and Meg (R) picking the beans off the plants.
before this last rain Josephine seeded all the paths between the Fall crops with Crimson Clover. It will grow and spread all winter and come spring the fall beds will be covered in clover
A cool Fall sunrise with the sun making the edges of the clouds bright
The double bay high tunnel is full of Fall and Winter greens
Winston with a hint of a smile after Josephine brushed all the seeds and burrs out of his coat
Selfie of Josephine and Cooper enjoying fall break
Cooper walking on the beach in Gulf Shores
Ice cream party for Anna’s last day. After four summers working on the farm she has moved on 6to an office job
Here is Monica (L) and Meg (R) packing CSA boxes
Cooper says, “It’s carrot season, yahoo!”
Josephine found a bunch Black swallowtail caterpillars in the high tunnel and moved them out to the parsley
The dogs were trying to get a mouse or vole. Unfortunately they wiped out a bunch of Brussels sprouts
Peanut was happy to have so many wanting to give her attention
Kids busting pumpkins for the chickens
Folks gathering around the fire
Plenty of food, thanks to everyone that brought a side dish or dessert
It was a beautiful evening for outdoor dinning
All the kids loved making S’mores
Desserts were plenty and delicious
Deep cold snap means covering some veggies and hoping others make it.
Argh! Tubby Creek Farm pirates, Cooper the vampire pirate (L) and Josephine
The goats love carrot season. Here are some does munching down on some tops and damaged carrots
A non work Sunday was spent doing fun things, Randy made kimchi and Josephine prepped/stratified native plant/flower seeds.
This is a guardian livestock frog protecting the Brussels sprouts from pests.
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