What's happening at the farm
Field notes from the homestead — eggs in the incubator, the tomato bed, a new lamb, the beehive, a thunderhead building west. Every dispatch comes with a learning piece and a few prompts to make a guess about.
Garden
Tomatoes climbing the cage — squash spilling out beside them
First green fruit forming. Heat-loving squash leaves taking over the bed beside.
Garden
First zucchini under the leaves
Hidden treasure: the first two zucchini are ready to cut.
Garden
Pumpkin seeds sprouted in 6 days
From hard tan seed to two fat green leaves — fast.
Orchard
Peaches are sizing up — and we're thinning them
Hundreds of fuzzy little fruit. We'll pull most of them off so the rest grow big.
Orchard
Mulberries are turning — the birds know first
Red turns to deep purple. If we don't pick them, the catbirds will.
Orchard
Blackberry canes are flowering — fruit in 6 weeks
White five-petal flowers all over the brambles. Bees in heaven.