Saturday, March 21, 2015

2014 Wrapup

So here's what happened in 2014: We grew lots of awesome veggies, made some great friends and really started to tune in the farm systems.  Hey look, it's a double rainbow over a nice buckwheat cover crop.  Ahh, nice day.

Then winter came in...


No wait, back to the rest of summer!  We planted an acre of peas/vetch/oats cover crop.


I was thoroughly startled by a cecropia moth caterpillar.  (I think that's what it was)


We grew a nice array of tomatoes in all sizes and colors


Admitted to ourselves why you shell out more $$ for UV stable plastic.  To be fair, it was the 3rd season on this cheap big box store plastic for the door.  So maybe the cost is a wash, but the cleanup and repair is no fun.  But, what did I fix it with?  The cheap stuff.  


Mulched the heck out of the cane fruits


Eleanor inspected the carrots


And then we pulled em out.  Still enjoying them well into March


Winter Rye cover crop germinated after all the peppers, onions and summer greens were tilled in.


Grew some great fall salad greens!


The rosemary kept cranking along.


The Farmall hydraulics stopped working and we ended up replacing the hydraulic pump.  Darn!


Beavers moved into Baker Brook...


And Turkeys invaded the front field...


and voles.


Once winter socked us in, and nothing was growing anymore, the wind blew some great drifts




Just last week we made our trip up to Fedco to get supplies to do it all over again in 2015!


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