Getting ready to clean some broccoli seed.
Folks!
Here's a chronicle in pictures of some of the goings on here at the BZ Farm starting in March 2022 and updated when we can.
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Cilantro seed.
Finished canning the last batch of hot sauce, moving on to sauerkraut.
Shredding cabbage for sauerkraut.
This is a filderkraut German sauerkraut cabbage. They can get huge. This is a small one.
A late harvest of red cabbage (Nov. 11) destined for sauerkraut.
Beginning of November, the tamarack if full fall glory, garden frosty.
Counting out seeds for germination tests.
Germination tests.
A cold December day despite a bit of sunshine.
Loading more firewood for the shop stove. Almost too heavy for one person to pick up.
More germination tests. The testing took up all of December and into January.
We sprout some of the bigger seeds in glass jars for germination testing. These are BZ Buttercup squash seeds.
This is one of BZ's niftier inventions: We swing out the copper coil that heats our hot water and slide in 10 gallons of our harvested peat that we use for potting soil. We "cook" it until it reaches about 160 degrees to kill weed seeds and some potential pathogens.
Germination testing Kentucky Wonder pole bean seed.
The garlic bed on January 30th.
Rosemary cuttings rooting. An earlier batch in the background and some aloe. We'll have these plants and more for sale at local plant sales and farm barters.
Tomatoes in the greenhouse still producing in mid-January.
Cooked and sifted potting soil from out native peat bog.
Early January sunrise.