A September Pictorial

Here's a pictorial of the farm this month. I imagine that in future year's the novelty will wear off, but since this is the first year, I'm pretty excited about all the thing's that are growing right now.

Bell peppers in the greenhouse. A little late this year, hopefully
they still have time to ripen.

Our favorite eating tomato (vs canning or drying) - Black Russian.

Whitey in front, Isabel behind. He's up to around 150 lb now we think, hopefully
the 30 lbs of apples we're feeding them will fatten them up a bit. 

Laying hens and soon-to-be layer's. Hopefully the newbie's will
start laying in the next month or two.

One of the apple tree's that Orrin pruned last winter, and has a ton of apples on it.
They're pretty tasty now, almost fully ripe.

Farmer Orrin dumping some weeds onto a compost pile.

Our work so far on Row B. We've completed 7 beds and Orrin
is halfway through Bed 8 (left side). We are cover cropping them and
then putting a layer of hay down on top to mulch each bed.

The lower beds in Row A. Dry beans (lower left) are almost ready to be picked,
and we've planted some new greens in the bare-looking bed (in the middle of the pic).

The upper half of Row A. The tall greenery are cover crops that we'd planted in every
other row this year to improve the soil. There are also squash and pumpkin plants throughout.

The second of our two heads of cauliflower. 4 or 5" across. Not huge, but I'm happy it's there.
The first one was a pretty good size, and downright tasty.

Buttercup squash. So delicious, they taste like sweet potatoes to me.

Spaghetti squash.

Baby Pam Pumpkin

Rouge Vif D'etamps pumpkin. It looks a lot like a wheel of cheese.

Part of the hillside that's been "sheep'ed", ie chomped down to the ground.
And anything they didn't eat, Orrin cut down with his new fancy scythe.

A beautiful Barbarella eggplant. One of the veggie's I have most been looking forward to this year.
We've eaten one so far (a Nadia), and should have 5 more before the season ends.