Photo Gallery

Lovage headed for market.

Bok Choi headed for market.

The chard is sizing up.

A neighbor cuts hay in our field for his livestock.

Newly transplanted broccoli under cover, lettuce seed crop and kale in the new market garden in the lower section.

Bok Choi, letuce seed crop, Swiss chard in the upper garden.

Morning, May 29 in the upper garden.

Winter Squash under cover and bean poles in the upper garden.

These Peruvian Mayacoba beans have been sprouted for two day and are being planted very carefully by hand for a winter food supply for the collective.

These Peruvian Mayacoba beans have been sprouted for two day and are being planted very carefully by hand for a winter food supply for the collective. 

Preparing four beds (~600 sq. ft.) for dry beans.

After light tilling to work in the weedy cover crop. Then a hula hoe is used to widen the path to two feet while adding soil to the bed.

Fungilion and Carl performing at the 1st Annual Northeast Washington Mushroom festival.

At the 1st Annual Northeast Washington Mushroom festival.

Tom gives a workshop on fermentation at the 1st Annual Northeast Washington Mushroom festival.

Succession planting of lettuce.

Painted Mountain flour corn being planted as winter food supply for the collective.

Using the back of a hoe to press in and cover the corn seed.

Planting Double Standard sweet corn seed. A hole is made every 12 inches across a well-fed four-foot bed with a dibble. The pipe is used to drop the corn seeds, which have been sprouted for about two or three days, into the holes (without having to bend down). Four seeds (for the four directions) in each hole that will be thinned to the one best sepcimen in each hole later.

Planting Russian Banaba fingerling potatoes. 12" apart in two rows down a four-foot bed using a string as a guide. Afterwards, the potatoes will be pressed into the soil, shallow and covered. Later the potatoes will be hilled as they emerge.

Planting Russian Banaba fingerling potatoes. 12" apart in two rows down a four-foot bed using a string as a guide. Afterwards, the potatoes will be pressed into the soil, shallow and covered. Later the potatoes will be hilled as they emerge.

There is vetch and winter rye that was planted last fall in this weedy "cover crop." This garden soil is in a harsh transition from Canary grass sod, but with a few years of careful management we hope to see fewer weeds and have to till less often.

Buddy finds some cool shade on an unusually hot May afternoon.

Mucking out the duck house. Headed for the compost area.

First farmers' market of 2023.

Our precious haul. Tons of horse and cow manure from our next-door neighbor. 

Prepping more beds in the new market garden.

Our precious haul. Tons of horse and cow manure from our next-door neighbor. 

Planting the Inca Gold potatoes 12" in the row, rows three ft. apart to accomodate the mechanical potato digger.

Prepping the Inca Gold potatoes for planting.

Prepping some of the specialty potato varieties we save for preservation purposes.

Tomatoes all planted in the hoophouse.

BZ pounds in the tomato stakes.

The Portuguese snow peas emerging. They will grow 7 ft. tall.

Sharpened cedar poles for tomato stakes.

First farmers' market of 2023. Seeds and plants mostly.

Using a stick to carefully cover the onion seeds.

To grow our own onion sets (from wich we will grow next year's onion crop) BZ uses a 1x2 board to for a depression in the soil and then he sprinkles a fairly dense narrlow band of onion seeds. The onions will grow close together and should not get much bigger than 3/4" later when it's time to harvest them to keep over winter and plant next year. 

The solar panel that charges the shop batteries is getting more and more sun each day.