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Come a Long Way
We've come a long way from this first post two years ago to the end of this 2024 season. The garden is put to bed for the season and the...
Winthrop Estate
Sep 26, 20241 min read
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Tomato Variety
Thanks to some great local gardeners I know, I was gifted seven different types of tomatoes. And today many handfuls were ready for...
Winthrop Estate
Sep 5, 20241 min read
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Half Moon Blade
Good tools are such a treat. Actually, they are also a necessity. These Japanese half moon serrated blades are useful for easily...
Winthrop Estate
Aug 29, 20241 min read
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August Harvest
One lovely day in August I got to harvest this. It seems like I will have a lot more blackberries than we had last year. It also seems...
Winthrop Estate
Aug 20, 20241 min read
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Peruvian Black Mint
This is Huacatay Mint, or black mint, from Peru. We got the seeds two years ago, let some of it go to seed at the end of last year, and...
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Aug 7, 20241 min read
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Wild Mushrooms, not edible
Wondrous fungi! I know almost nothing about these amazing growths but they do catch my eye while walking around this area. The only...
Winthrop Estate
Aug 2, 20241 min read
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Yellow Squash
I love the pattern of these leaves! Our yellow squash seems to be doing well this year. This is a photo of the young squash flowers. ...
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Jul 26, 20241 min read
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Slow Down for Wild Life
Short diversion from farm blog for wildlife sighting: This little turtle made a depression in the crushed stone walkway and caught my eye....
Winthrop Estate
Jul 19, 20241 min read
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Salad Weed
This is Purslane. It is often called a weed. It grows in gravel paths where people don't usually want it. Not sure how it found its...
Winthrop Estate
Jul 18, 20241 min read
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Blackberries
These are thornless blackberries. Sounds nice until you realize those thorns are what keep the deer away. When we planted them two...
Winthrop Estate
Jul 12, 20241 min read
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Shiso/Perilla
This plant grows very well around here. It tastes like a sharp sesame flavor. You may have had it in Asian cooking, maybe raw on sushi...
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Jul 6, 20241 min read
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Nettle Soup
This picture looks like a bunch of weeds. It is. It happens to be a large patch of wild plants with a ton of stinging nettle. Nettle...
Winthrop Estate
Jun 30, 20241 min read
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Sumac!
Do you see the little light green cone of tiny berries on this tree? This is a sumac tree, (no, not poison sumac!). This one is a few...
Winthrop Estate
Jun 22, 20241 min read
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Distraction
Iris are in bloom! We probably have 100 tall gorgeous light purple (and a few yellow and white) blooms. It's easy to get distracted...
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Jun 16, 20241 min read
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Thoughtfully Made
Breeding seeds has been happening since, oh, a long time ago. Sometimes they were bred for drought resistance, or pest resistance, or...
Winthrop Estate
Jun 8, 20241 min read
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Trial Canning Night
I did can some food many years ago, and I get the idea in theory, but since I plan to can most of our tomato harvest, I thought I should...
Winthrop Estate
May 30, 20241 min read
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Spreading Compost
We are adding some rich compost from Holiday Farm to our new garden beds, unloading from our tractor bucket one shovel full at a time. ...
Winthrop Estate
May 24, 20241 min read
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A What? A Turkey Egg?
I can't believe it didn't break from our shovels and the tractor bucket and it's travels, but somehow a turkey egg came to our garden in...
Winthrop Estate
May 15, 20241 min read
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Cool and Shady
Cool and shady is not my experience farming. But my dog found a cool and slightly shady spot to rest. She liked the freshly exposed...
Winthrop Estate
May 3, 20241 min read
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Calendula Flowers
We planted these for the bees. We saw lots of them coming to feast. We did harvest some of the flowers and seeds. This mix is called...
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Oct 14, 20231 min read
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