Counting Our Blessings



Self-portrait with collard greens

An awful tragedy in our circle of friends and family has us counting our blessings here. Life on the farm proceeds apace - last week we brought beets, swiss chard, collard greens, baby lacinato kale, scallions, and lots of herbs to market. I'm going to let one of the four broody hens set on some eggs - we'll see what Americauna/Black Sumatran mix chicks look like if everything goes well. Our lone surviving guinea hen is determined to hatch out her own brood - we may get some fertilized guinea eggs from a friend and let her try her luck with those.

This week's market stand had snow peas, shell peas, collards again, the first of the carrots, the last of the current scallion beds, swiss chard, and the second harvest of beets. We turned over the last mesclun bed and will plant that with beans or cukes today. The tomatoes, squash, and peppers are doing well, they all love the black landscape fabric. I'm trying to balance out our summer crops so that we have more variety then the tomatoes/peppers/squash that flood our market come July - we'll have potatoes, beans....maybe carrots and beets too. Back with more pics in a few days.

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Posted: Thu - June 14, 2007 at 06:35 AM        

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