Volunteer sunflowers.
Photo Gallery
Folks!
We've been incredibly busy here at the BZ farm, naturally, but we have some pictures to share.
We want you to be able to get a sense of what's going on here.
Remember, you are always welcome to arrange a visit and we are looking for folks to move to the farm, join the collective and share in the beauty and bounty this land offers.
Chrys
(I'm the one who's always hidden behind the camera)
BZ has been working hard on modifying a c.1940's John Deere sickle-bar mower so we'll be ready for haying next year. He's changed it from the old-style fixed mounting hitch to a three-point hitch and added a hydraulic lift for the mower blade and other modifications. It should be ready for testing soon.
Kathryn is working on new banners for our market booth-- made of canvas. It wouldn't do to have a toxic vinyl banner for a permaculture farm. We are slowly weaning ourselves from dependence on plastic. It's not easy. We needed new tables at the market to display our goods. We could have bought more plastic folding tables but we decided to build new tables from scratch from wood and recyclable steel folding legs. Little by little, let's all give the plastic industry the finger by going back to more natural materials.
Carrot flowers are one of the best insect-attracting flowers you can grow in your garden. No idea who these little critters are but they're just one of many species that visit these flowers-- PLUS you get enough carrot seed to feed your whole neighborhood. Just hold over the winter some of your nicest carrots in a root cellar or in the fridge and plant them in the ground in March so they'll go to seed.
Rainbow Swiss Chard, all from seed we've saved.
Bu Bu the sheepdog is happily adapted to our farm life.
Dianna showing off her portable herb drier. She'll just collapse it down and put it in her car to hang it up again at her house.
Dianna harvested 10 different kinds of medicinal herbs in one afternoon on the farm. Bu Bu ran off with the Yarrow. No sign of it yet.
We are so grateful to Marc and Gloria Flora for their potlatch gift of fire brick for the outdoor oven and rocket cookstove we are going to build. Probably have enough left over for a couple of other woodfired projects.
Tomatoes brimming with fruits about to ripen.
Wood is the fuel that warms you twice, especially if you do the splitting during a climate chaos heat dome.
One of the two new batches of Ancona ducklings that hatched this year.
We have our work cut out for us. BZ's custom log splitter mounted on the backhoe, using the backhoe's hydraulics.
Onion and carrot crops for seed.
Looking southeast in the Lower Garden, July 19.
Cabbage, beets, parsnips going to seed, onions and pole beans in the Lower Garden.
Parsnip seed, summer squash, cucumbers and brassica beds.
Big onion crop this year.
Cinnamon and Spice are growing fast eating mostly weeds (we have no shortage of weeds). Tree leaves and branches too.
Chrys happily hilling potatoes.
Oiled and ready to use, treadle sewing machine.
At the farmers' market, July 17.
This year's garlic harvest drying.
Brassica bedsm July 15.
Green Goliath broccoli seed crop in flower.
Freshly-hilled potatoes.
A corner of the upper garden has become a little weedy.
Buddy and Bu Bu.
Young Ancona ducklings.
Farmers' market July 10.
Farmers' market July 10.
2024 garlic harvest.
Here's a picture of the cat sitting on the cat.
One side effect of the good life: Amazing salads.
Getting ready to pull up the garlic.
Brassica beds July 6, potatoes in the background.
Freshly-hilled potatoes.
Loaded for market day, July 3.