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2019
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Cooper running around the field on a wonderful late February day
Seed trays full of spring crops in the greenhouse, mid February
This is a picture of the levee to the left that helps slow down water and control erosion
Here is the same area during the hard rainy days in Feb 2019
Cooper running across the pond levee
Harvest crates of assorted sizes
View from our house after several days of rain. Pasture has standing water, Movable chicken coop in slightly higher/dryer location
The Infinite Dibbler, spikes turned in. Used to make and poke holes in grow beds
Simple germination chamber. Old freezer with a crock pot connected to a thermostat. warms the seed trays for better germination
Young hens inside the mobile coop
Cooper “helping” water seed tray
Black gold, a pile of composting gin trash
pair of raw goat shanks (fore shanks)
Cooper gnawing on the bits of meat on a goat shank
Braised Goat Shank on potatoes and carrots covered in gravey
This is our winter cover crop of diakon radish and clover
Amazing stew with sweet potato, okra (saved from summer) and goat on a bd of
Cabbage, kohlrabi and broccoli just starting to sprout
Irrigation parts are all sorted, counted and ready for 2019
Trail cam pic of deer at night
Connie (Randy’s mom)< Josephine, Cooper and Randy
Goats laying around on pasture
View from the tractor of Patrick standing in front of 17 beds formed and wrapped
high tunnel with many sandbags holding down weed barrier.
View from the tractor of Pat putting the end wall on the high tunnel
Part of the spring field still covered with a tar;p
Gus, from Crane Nest Apiary working our bees
Little tomato plants in the high tunnel
Connie (Randy’s mom) working and moving compost in the high tunnel
Interns (L to R) Sunshine and Candice planting lettuce
Cooper picking dandelions
Bok Choy almost harvest ready
We sometimes leave crops in the field so the bloom in order to attract pollinators. These are turnips left over from fall
Sunshine working on rinsing, drying and packing our first CSA of 2019
Maggie our livestock guardian dog hanging out with the does and kids during after cud nap time
Red and green head lettuces growing in our field
Close up of a cucumber plant in the field, with the bioplastic mulch
Day break, sun rising in background over beds of just planted cucurbits
Spun the tire off the rim, air PSI was a bit low
Goats running around
Super fresh, Kale
Arugula
Tub full of red and green lettuce, salanova salad mix
Using the bed shaper making raised eds
Goats on fresh pasture there are around 1 does and 22 kids in this picture
Lady beetle love?
Blackberry blooms
Crunchy King radishes a new favorite
Josephine using the Farmall Cub to hill potatoes
Potatoes all hilled up
Cabbages in the field are ready
Baby apples, unfortunately the tree is to young and these apples will be picked off now
Summer garden is coming on here are squashes and cucurbits
Goats resting after their morning graze
CSA packing in full swing L to R Anna, Josephine and Sunshine
These are the early tomatoes in the hightunnel
Cooper enjoying a wedge of cabbage while Georgia looks on.
Walk in cooler is a bit full
Crunchy .King radishes a new fav at Tubby Creek Farm
This is the other hightunnel with peppers
Was wondering why the cucurbits were not coming up, they had but the crows ate them. We know this from the foot prints left behind
Seed that sprouted but the sprout is missing, crows!
Cooper running from daddy, Randy in his wheelchair with dog Georgia in his lap
Hungry chickens waiting for food
Zephyr squash, its yellow with a green tip
Freshly seeded beds covered in Agribond to keep the crows out
Patrick, Sunshine and Candice packing CSA shares
Newest team member, Victoria holding up squash while packing CSAs
The dry erase board in our packing shed has simplified harvest days
Cooper running through the potatoes
Black rot on the kale
Shed delivery, we have long needed a place to store field equipment
Zucchini mini-mufins muffins front, zucchini back
Packed walk-in, filled with boxes and rates of veggie
Bolting lettuce, rises up when its about to flower or bolt
Squash and zucchini frittata still in the skillet
Cooper running through the pepper plants in the hightunnel.
Our two bucks Lamoine (near) Pratt (far)
Wobbler sprinklers set up in the potatoes
Common on tomatoes here is a Tobacco Horn Worm
Bumblebees in a squash blossom
Cooper loves to “drive” the tractors here he is on the old Farmall Cub
Results of using Bt, one dead caterpillar.
Jo and Cooper a little grimey after seeding cover crop seed
Cooper with the Tonka truck in the dirt
Winter squashes are looking fantastic
Jo spreading cover crop seed, Cooper helping
The tomato season has begun. all of those flats are full of cherry, plum, slicer and heirloom tomatoes
Cooper running through the just sprouting cover crop
Olympus bell peppers are big,beautiful and tasty
Red slicing tomatoes
A variety of heirloom tomatoes
Our small but growing orchard of apples and pears
Honey is back! Our new labels on our honey
Cooper & Jo planting cover crop seeds
Okra plants on the left and the third planting of tomatoes on the right
Several tomato varieties we grow start from 12 Striped German, Black Krim, Golden Jubilee, Chocolate Cherry, Pork Chop and center is Black Prince
Sunset looking across the field toward our house
Busy at the farmers market
Cluster of field tomatoes
The wrapped beds will be the last planting of tomatoes and other summer goodies and the unwrapped beds are the beginning of fall beds
View from the tractor, summer cover crop
honey for sale
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Cracked and splitting tomatoes
Crate full of sweet Golden Marconi’s
Cooper helping with the chalk board
Okra picking crew in front of our okra plants (L to R) Vick, Josephine and Olivia
New worker Olivia packing CSA boxes
A little green tree frog on a pepper plant
Picture of our 2019 work crew L to R Anna, Georgia (dog), Vick, Candice, Patrick, Olivia, and kneeling in front Josephine with Frank (dog)
Fall veggies are well underway. this is a picture of several seed trays in our greenhouse
Beans sprouting under a protective layer of Agribond
Our sweet potato patch under all of those greens are sweet potatoes
Stewed tomatoes with okra, squash, eggplant, long beans and onions our summer farm dinner
Fall tomatoes with trellis tring on black bioplastic mulch
Looking down onto our okra patch, lots of blooms
Okra flower up close
Okra,lots of okra,looking down into four crates of fresh harvested okra
Some of our goats behind electric netting, on fresh grass with trees in background
Josephine’s farmer selfie in the okra patch
Just a portion of the butternut squash haul this year
Hot and humid even before the sun comes up
After the storm, this shed is missing its roof
Cooper splashing ina puddle along the field
Our buck Lemoyne has grown to be a big buck
Lemoyne and Pratt rubbing on one another
One bunch of sweet potato greens
Close up of our long beans flowering
Some fall brassicas and tomatoes in the background
Cooper putting eggs into an egg carton
Six rows of arugula per bed, just sprouting
A Pray mantis hanging out in the long beans
Cooper working the info booth at the market
Cooper munching on a cabbage leaf, his dog Frank by his side
Candice rinsing off the radishes
Parasitic wasp eggs and larva on a tobacco horn worm
Stir fried long beans with fried tofu
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Early spring beds are completed
Surprise, new mower still in the crate
Sweet potato work crew
Grabbing sweet potatoes
Father and son, Blaine (L) and Daniel (R)
Ugh, army worm attack
Cooper, Ava and Hanna (l to r) playing in the sweet potato patch
Cooper checking out the tomatoes
Cooper smelling morning glory flower
Grammy G and Cooper watching soy bean harvest at sunset
New growth on the beets, fresh new leaf in the center old worm eaten leaves on the outside
Young doelings enjoying fresh forage
Red Dragon Napa cabbage
Cooper helping feed sweet potato greens to a goat
A parasitized Fall Army worm
Cooper enjoying some mud after the rain
Cooper checking on the hens
Late tomatoes are looking good, hope the can produce before the first frost
Hakurei turnips,harvested,bunched and waiting to be washed
fall veggies some have one great,some not so wellbut this cauliflower is awesome
Cooper and Grammy G out working in the field.
Some of our bucklings look like they belong in the movie Grease. Check the hair do
Lemoyne, foreground with Pratt both of these bucks have been putting on their fall stank or doe attractant
Cooper and frank running through the just sprouted cover crop
Josephine’s dad, Sterling building a fire for the farm party
Cooper laying in between peppers & eggplant
Farm Party 2019 folkson the porch
Farm Party 2019 children playing
Farm Party 2019 more children playing
Farm Party 2019 folks having a good time
Farm Party 2019 folks arriving
Farm Party 2019 folks having fun
Kohlrabis have sized up nicely, here they are mid harvest
Harvested, carrots in the field ready for washing
Cooper running around ear Mr. Tuckers bulldozer. Yes, we are having some work done
Patrick holding up some big kohlrabi
That is one big daikon Cooper is holding
Cooper munching on Napa cabbage
Trellised tomatoes and long beans died back after several nights below freezing
Napa cabbage & cilantro salad
Chickies arrived these
Cooper running down the creek bed. This creek empties into Tubby Bottoms so we named it Tubby Creek, hence our farm name.
Just some of our beds covered with row cover
Farmer Josephine and her carrots. A picture of Jo with beds of just uncovered carrot beds
Black widow spider on the agribon
Fennel and carrot top pesto
Frosty Morning Scene, frost o some plants at day break
Goats hanging around the shelter during snowfall
Josephine, Cooper and Frank
Harvesting hakurei turnips
Cooper enjoying Mr Tuckers skid steer
More lettuce planted in the high tunnel
Randy and Cooper
Floor plan for new building
Wash pack build as of Dec 17
Wash pack build as of Dec 17
Wash pack build as of Dec 17
Wash pack build as of Dec 17
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