Air-pruning nursery bed: Adding some subsoil.
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)
Air-pruning nursery bed: Lining the screen bottom with a few layers of newspaper before adding soil.
Prepping for sowing rye and vetch cover crop. Peruvian Myacoba dry beans still ripening in the green strip.
Farmers' market, Aug. 30, 2023.
Bunch beets, Aug. 29, 2023.
Russian Banana fingerling potatoes.
Readying broccoli for blanching and freezing for a taste of summer in the dead of winter.
Better late than never.
Fermenting tomato seeds.
Saving tomato seeds.
Freshly-harvested onion sets drying to be planted in 2024.
Basil drying.
Pressing cider from this summer's Discovery apples. We got 12 gallons (was not a big fruitset this year due to last year's sudden harsh winter weather).
We were luckier than some and had only a few days of bad wildfire smoke.
Discovery apples. "'Discovery' is an early season dessert apple cultivar. One of its parents was the 'Worcester Pearmain', with the pollinator 'Beauty of Bath'." Wikipedia.
They are delicious!
Farmers' market, Aug. 16, 2023.
Air-pruning nursery bed.
Garlic Festival at China Bend Winery, Aug. 2023.
Garlic Festival at China Bend Winery, Aug. 2023.
Onions drying under a tarp outdoors. Too many to dry in the house.
Farmers' market, Aug. 9, 2023. The basil plants proved to be a hit with customers.
CSA box, Aug. 8, 2023.
Polyculture!
Isla learns to sow cilantro seed with an antique seeder.
Squash, foreground; beans, middle; corn in the background.
Ancona ducklings and their mom.
Finishing up a load of wood chips. Skeeter says, "invest in organic matter."
Off-grid, alternative energy.
Dill in flower.
Isla and Sarah collect Bok Choi seed.
Green birch, fir and tamarak drying in the summer sun for winter heat.
Onion flowers going to seed.
Berseem clover interplanted with Painted Mountain flour corn.
The lower garden, July 22, 2023.
Birch logs. Gathering the winter wood supply.