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Late October, planting garlic, herding turkeys, and new pig

I was up early October 11th,on the back porch looking up at the waning moon and waiting for it to get light enough to start planting garlic. We had a lot of help show up to help us plant. Jane, Amber, Pam and Doug, and Heather and Kevin.
We planted 80 lbs of garlic, laid [...]

Garlic Everywhere!

Popping Garlic
That is what it is called when you bust up garlic bulbs into individual garlic cloves and that is what we did most of the day Tuesday with the help of CJ.
It is not that hard of work. We get to sit around. sit being the keyword, listening to the radio, and busting up [...]

Market Updates 10/10

No markets for us this Saturday. We will be starting at first light on Saturday to try and get 70+ lbs. of garlic planted before the rain that is forecast begins.
We started getting the garlic area ready last Thursday with the help of Taylor and Marc who came out to help.
You may of met Taylor [...]

Fall Sowing

Most of our fall sowing is done. We made multiple sowings of collards, lacinato kale, spinach, beets, carrots, and arugula to spread the risk of crop failure in September.
Seeds in the ground are a long way from a harvestable crop.
Still have to finish cleaning out the greenhouse and getting stuff sowed in it. Jenifer and [...]

Snakes, Frogs, Garlic

14 to 80 in One Week
Early last week, we were looking at low temps. in the teens and highs around 40 degrees. Early this week, high temps. are pushing 80 degrees with lows in the 50’s…
Friday’s high is supposed to be around 40 degrees with rain… geesh.
Garlic Planting
We finally got our garlic planted. Close to [...]