After a morning of picking and putting up some beans and broccoli, I took a break from those pressing summer tasks. I returned to weaving a rug I had started before spring was upon us. It felt good to be at the loom and hear the summer rain. While I was weaving I thought of Ken out in the field. When the summer shower started I am sure he and Oscar took refuge in the …
Greetings from the Garden! This week’s CSA box has cabbage, kohlrabi, potatoes, green peppers, zucchini, cucumbers, green beans, onions, and parsley Field Notes. Ken got a new area set up for the pigs, and we moved them Friday. Ken is also irrigating green houses, planting fall crops, and more. The soil is dry, but I am careful what I wish for – some friends just got six inches of rain! Ken checked his …
About a third of our food requires pollination. Any food crop that flowers and sets fruit like apples and many vegetables like peas, beans, cucumbers, squash, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, and berries needs an insect or bird or even some mammal to pollinate the flower for a successful harvest. We have a good population of native pollinators like bumblebees here. This week I have seen some Monarch butterflies, too. And …
