Fall Happenings at the Farm

This fall we've done pretty well at getting the fields cleaned up. We actually got the garlic planted on Columbus Day (the "official" garlic-planting day).

Charles worked a long time to get the plastic mulch and irrigation tape pulled up from the fields. We keep transitioning further and further away from using the plastic mulch - but we're not quite ready to get rid of all of it yet.

Charles got the cover crops planted last week. (Except the tomato patch - haven't tackled that one yet). Hopefully the rye will sprout this week and will soon start working its soil conserving and soil-building organic matter magic!

We're still eating a little cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli, and kale from the fields. Though they aren't growing very fast with these cold nights! A lot of the broccoli is starting to get a little brown inside the stems - too cold for them we suppose. But the tops and outside of the stems are still pretty good.

Charles has one tunnel ready to plant our summer strawberries - we're trying a different planting scheme this year. We'll be using landscape fabric in the strawberry tunnel to keep weeds from overtaking us!

As always, lots to do at the farm!