Beans climbing in the morning light
I love summer mornings on the farm. Once morning chores are done, I love to just poke around the garden and take in the splendor in the beautiful morning light. Here are some pictures from this morning.
Broilers, finished with their morning grain, looking for more
Bee and mustard flowers
garlic, fresh and flavorful
We’ve begun to harvest the garlic from the garden, despite the fact that we never got any scapes. We’re not sure why we didn’t get any scapes, perhaps it was the weeds or perhaps it was not enough compost or organic matter or fertilizer, but in any case the small compact heads are packed with juicy garlic goodness. It’s a delight to run down and pull up a new head every time Margaret says we’re out of garlic. Nope, not yet.
Nested in for the night...
When I went in the barn last night to put all the critters to bed, I found all the baby chicks were all snuggled in for the night in one of the nesting boxes with their mama. There’s one more that ducked back behind mama hen.
Margaret’s essay about making potato latkes with our home grown potatoes is the cover story for last week’s Jewish Journal – the Jewish newspaper of Greater Los Angeles. I sent them a selection of images to go with the piece, but we just didn’t have a really great picture of girls in the garden with potatoes, which is kind of what they wanted for the cover. Fortunately, the morning of the paper’s deadline, we got a beautiful sunny December morning–with no snow! Before I headed off to work, I got the girls dressed in their farmiest outfits, grabbed a couple buckets of potatoes from the root cellar (a.k.a. basement), and set out to try to make a great cover photo. Charlotte quickly grew bored with the endeavor, but Bea was a champ. Here are some of the shots that didn’t make it into the magazine:
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