Friday, September 24, 2010

September 20-26


Our walk in freezer is functional.


Some pork orders ready for pick up.




The field corn should be ready in a few weeks.

Saturday, September 11, 2010

September 6-12th


Unloading some wheat into the dump box.


Some of the potatoes ready to dig. The rest should be ready in a couple weeks.


Tilling up one of our fields. We planted sudan grass in part of it, there was to much residue for the harrow to handle. So I had to use the moldboard plow.


Looking backward.


Sometimes you dig up rocks. This probably weighed about 70 or 80 pounds and got jammed between the plow and the opener disc.

Thursday, September 2, 2010

The First Week of September


We started combining our wheat yesterday, it looks like we'll have a good harvest this year.


Once in a while I find some unusual tomatoes, this one is probably due to a double blossom on the plant.

Saturday, August 28, 2010

The Last Week of August


Our Hereford hogs on pasture. They are more active in the morning and evening, during the day they just lay around.


We have automatic waterers for our pigs. Its a lot easier than hauling buckets of water.

Sorghum sudan (Sorghum bicolor) is a fast growing grass that we use as a cover crop. In some places the sudan grass is over six feet tall.


View from the tractor seat, disking in the sudan grass.


Looking backward, the disk does a nice job of knocking the grass down and chopping it up.


Ben holding some of our wine cap mushrooms which have just started fruiting.


Its not visible in this picture, but our field corn is just starting to dent (dry out).

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

The Second Week of August


Red and green sweet peppers.


The tomatoes have been ripening, the variety towards the front is call 'Orange Russian'.

August


One of our larger pigs enjoying fresh pasture.

Monday, August 2, 2010

Last Week of July


We've been getting quite a bit of rain lately. This has made it a difficult year to make hay.

The wheat should be ready to harvest in a few weeks.


The oats and peas are just about ready also.


The potatoes are doing well this year.


Our corn is over seven feet tall in some places, warm weather and rain have made for an ideal growing season.


We've been picking tomatoes in the the greenhouse for a couple weeks now.