Seed garlic.
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)
Lots of tomato sauce this year.
Planting garlic through the snow (again).
Planting garlic through the snow (again).
Planting garlic through the snow (again).
Seed Garlic. I think this is the Georgia Crystal.
Planting garlic through the snow (again).
Wood can be a renewable resource. One just has to take greed out of the equasion.
The Shop.
Made red and green hot pepper sauce.
This is how we store a ton of locally-grown barley. Every day we sprout some of this for the ducks.
Pepper sauce.
Pepper sauce.
Wintery day.
Snow in the garden, late October.
Snow in the garden, late October.
We will be warm this winter.
Garlic beds, compost applied, ready for planting.
50th Anniversary of the Okanogan Barter Faire, October, 2023. (lifted from Facebook)
Mariah Cornwoman, seed saver and organic farmer (retired) has been coordinating the huge recycling effort at the barter faire for many years.
Barter Faire display.
Barter Faire display.
Barter Faire display.
Barter Faire display.
Here is Skeeter (Michael Pilarski) who co-founded the Tonasket Barter Faire in 1973. He is coordinating the effort by volunteers to direct traffic and find parking for well over 10,000 people attending the 50th anniversary faire. Otherwise Skeeter is busy spreading the word about ecological restoration and permaculture via friendsofthetrees.net and globalearthrepairfoundation.org and supplying medicinal herbs and seeds through FriendsOfTheTreesBotanicals.com. Skeeter is also a founding Board member of the BZ Permaculture Farm Collective here at the Bezaleel Israel Eco-Village.
Sunrise at the Barter Faire.
The Barter Faire afforded us an opportunity to market some of the basil we grew during the summer and dried. We still have lots available in spice jars. Make great gifts! Contact us.
Mixed sweet peppers.
Mixed sweet peppers.
The lettuces have enjoyed the cooler wetter weather we've had this fall. In perfect shape for selling at the Barter Faire.
Still enjoying fresh salads in mid-October!
Mixed hot peppers. Arledge, Santa Fe Grand, Aji Colorado, Cayenne, Hungarian Yellow Wax and a Toll's Sweet pepper that ended up being a hot one.
The ducks will reduce a mountain of apple pomace (left overs from cider pressing) in a matter of days.
Sampling the fall cider we pressed on the hydraulic cider press.
Lettuce on the left, cover crop of vetch on the right.
Inca Gold potatoes for breakfast.
A nice haul of carrots.
Painted Mountain flour corn is a study in diversity. This will become this winter's warm breakfast mush after it's ground and roasted. The finest ears we save for seed.
Colton visiting from the Earth Rising Sanctuary, on the other side of the river, helping to harvest the carrots. Buddy was helping.
Mid-October in the garden.