Please ignore the woman in the foreground mooning the camera! Oh heck, now I've done it - you might not have noticed her otherwise! Besides that, this is a shot of the greenhouse being readied for moving, by rolling on rail foundation, over to cover the winter greens beds covered by row cover fabric. This entails unclamping the hoop frame from the rail foundation, hinging up the end walls, getting a couple people to come help push it, then folding the ends back down and re-clamping it onto the rails. In the spring, we'll replace the winter greens plants with warm weather crops (tomatoes, melons, peppers), prepare another set of beds to the east for next winter's greens, then in the fall of 2015, roll it back to the west to cover those new beds, and let the sun, rain, snow get at the west beds so that they'll be ready for 2016-2017 winter greens. Nifty!
Jeanne watched the farm one day so that Linc could join a group for a fall foliage hike up Mt Lamborn.
One of the younger folks in the group decided to do handstands on the summit rock. There's a 1000 foot drop off the back side of the rock. Whether brave or silly, it made for a nice photo!
Jeanne harvested 280 bulbs of garlic from the garden. It turns out that grasshoppers do eat onions, but they don't eat garlic. Great!
They don't eat tomato plants either as it turns out, but since we'd abandoned the garden to the bindweed and grasshoppers and not bothered staking the tomatoes, nearly all of our tomatoes were eaten by slugs. Last year, our tomato harvest was over 300 lbs. This year? 15 lbs. Ducks eat slugs, and next year we'll have ducks (and we'll stake the tomato plants up).
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