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...

Thanks to some great local gardeners I know, I was gifted seven different types of tomatoes. And today many handfuls were ready for...

Good tools are such a treat. Actually, they are also a necessity. These Japanese half moon serrated blades are useful for easily...

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...

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...

Wondrous fungi! I know almost nothing about these amazing growths but they do catch my eye while walking around this area. The only...

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. ...

Short diversion from farm blog for wildlife sighting: This little turtle made a depression in the crushed stone walkway and caught my eye....

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...

These are thornless blackberries. Sounds nice until you realize those thorns are what keep the deer away. When we planted them two...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Breeding seeds has been happening since, oh, a long time ago. Sometimes they were bred for drought resistance, or pest resistance, or...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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...