Spring is farm improvement time.
Concrete pad and pallet wall. Keeping fertility on the farm. Or, as we joked when we were putting it together, this wall is to keep manure in – not to keep people out.
Produce For Sale
Our current crop of black beans, heirloom corn, and hard red winter wheat is currently available.
Farm Photos
Can you tell what is missing from this picture? (Not a part I ever expected to fall off. Though really it just broke and then had to be taken off so that it wouldn’t fall off in the field. That would’ve been a big mess.)Critters got in the combine cab, and my assistant *asked if he could help* clean it out. 🤩Funky sunflower with a potato beetle on its face.Potato and volunteer sunflower patch is looking good. It has rained almost every day for the last week or so. We are not in as bad a shape as our friends in the Bloomington area, but starting to come to terms with the fact that not everything is going to get planted this year.Lots of rain interrupted our weed control regimen in the sunflowers, so after a single pass with the rotary hoe, we’re on to cultivating! That ground was *hard* from all the moisture and then heat and wind crusting the top. Finally got it set and working up nicely though.First volunteer sunflower opened yesterday. We’ve gotten about 7 inches of rain in the last 10 days, which may have closed our bean-planting window. At least somebody’s loving it! 🌻TFW you just stopped by the farm to check the rain gauge and then realized you had to do some work.Nothing like getting your fuel line blocked on the last pass. 🤦🏻♀️ #FarmLifeNews Briefs
Events
Our annual Farm Tour & Tea is cancelled for 2019 due to an extremely wet planting season (we expect that some things might not be planted by the last week in June). We hope to host a potluck party on the farm later in the season instead. As soon as we have set a date, we’ll let you know here and via social media.
