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Positioned amid the blueberry, blackberriy and raspberry swales with croppy crops just across the lane.

Leveling begins on a building site for the Barn/GreenHouse/Processing Station and future WWOOFer quarters. 11-14-19

Last Farmers Market of the season. 10-12-19

!st frost warning is tomorrow night 10-11-9

Mowed the edge of the River and the former Squash row. Prepping for Garlic planting. 10-11-9

Find 3 Waldo's 10-11-9

Cut Flower Garden Prep for fall bulb planting 10-8-19

Fresh Mulch, Seasoned Mulch and Almost Dirt Mulch with Blueberry and Nasturtium in the foreground 10-6-19

Greenhouse,Processing Space, WWOOFER Quarters, Tracctor Shed and Outdoor Kitchen

Acquired some Cold Frames from a neighbor for season extended small salad crops and seed starting 10-6-19

4 out 5 Guinea's prefer to roost in the tree 10-2-19

Sorghum Cane ready to chop 9-30-19

Sorghum Grain Drying 9-29-19

Wormy Chestnut clean up 2nd year of eliminating all chestnuts from the property to break the worm cycle so we can eventually eat our Chestnuts.

Sorghum and beans ready to harvest, we will be cooking molasses next week at the Barn at Node

The Guinea's are rascist against all the brown based birds.

Punky Rooster, Nancy Sinatra, Goldie Hawn, Spike Jones 9-26-19

Mulch added to Elderberry row 9-20-19

Mulching Blueberry and Elderberry rows 9-20-19

Pulled weeds added green manure and buried Diakon seeds while mulching Blueberry and Elderberry rows 9-20-19

Purple Beans on the the cucumber trellis

The Sorghum is ready to strip & top 9-20-19

Basil seeding and Cayenne just getting started 9-20-19

sagging trellis line on the Early Girls 9-20-19

Fence line needs to be better secured to the Tposts, all of our trellis lines hae sagged significantly or fallen completly.

high tensil electric fence line used for trellising tomatos - FAIL

Striped Romans, Paprika & Purple Bumble Bee's

1st year Asparagus in front of 5 ricks of firewood for winter. 9-20-19

The Mortgage Lifter / Beefsteaks with Birdhouse Gord ground cover 9-20-19

Outhouse upgraded with a couple walls & roof 9-19-19

Stuffed red peppers on a bed of baked kale 8-30-19

Tomato Face

Rows of Planted Sorghum and 1/2 Runner Beans --- 8-15-19

Sorghum volunteers have taken over the onion and potato field --- 8-15-19

The Croppy River --- 8-15-19

Tomatoes have completely outgrown the 6 ft trellis system --- 8-15-19

Tuscan Kale, tomatoes and hardly any weeds --- 8-15-19

Tomatoes, peppers, beans and volunteer sorghum --- 8-15-19

Nasturtium, paprika peppers, Striped Roman tomatoes, black crowder peas, gooseberry tomatoes .....

A strawberry patch with Diakon radish and volunteer melons and butternuts --- 8-15-19

Nasturtium, purple basil, tomatoes.....

Late started Mortgage Lifter tomatoes

Spilanthes and Echinacea as a traffic island --- 8-15-19

Peppers, Diakon radish and tomato volunteers.

Art sits guard on the chickens

Volunteer Borage in the middle of our Paprika Peppers 7-21-19

Yellow squash, volunteer sorghum, tomatos

The hay mulch, no till method has given us A LOT of volulunteer plants, tomatos, cucumbers, melons, borage and the biggest sorghum I've ever seen.

At war with the raccons. We've lost a chicken and 6 guineas due to nightly raids. They are malicious little bastards. last night they showed us what they thought of our freshly errected electric poultry fence. 7-21-19

Moving our mobile chicken coop into it's 1st location 7-15-19

Freshly transplanted Mortgage Lifter and Beef Steak Tomatoes 7-11-19

The hay mulch has been a very effective weed barrier.

Cucumbers, Tuscan Kale, Tomatoes, Yarrow 7-11-19

Volunteer Sorghum and Tomatoes in the Potato and Onion area.

The hay mulch has been a very effective weed barrier.

Peppers, Nasturtium, Tomatoes, Yarrow 7-11-19

Squash, Tomaroes etc 7-11-19

5 Kinds of Garlic drying. Elephant, Music, Metechi, Inchellum Red and Chesnook Red. Siliver Whites are still in the field for a few more weeks. 7-6-19

Gerald visits 7-5-19

Our 1st day at market this season 7-5-19

Celebrating that we're not British with a multi color bonfire 7-4-19

Baby Chicks Move into their Coop 7-4-19

Guinni's move to there own cage outside 6-30-19

Chicks & Guinni's 6-23-19

Establishing perennial kitchen herbs

1 of 3 strawberry beds

Some areas that we planted have very poor drainage. We have had an incredible amount of rain.

A 1 day old bean sprout that's already bigger than the sorghum it's suppose to climb. 6-23-19

Garlic that's ready to harvest but too wet to harvest. Yarrow in the background. 6-23-19

Onions & Potatoes 6-23-19

Cucumbers, seed lettuce, tuscan kale, purple kale, yarrow and tomato

We Picked Up a Buncha Chicks to Work the Farm 6-1419

Zynga Welcomes You to the Relaxation Station

The Living Room for Firefly Viewing 6-4-19

Future Crop Eatin Burrito Filling 6-2-19

Garlic Scape Harvest 5-29-19

Rodger and Peter - field crew

Mulberry Picker 5-27-19

Tarp Harvesting Mulberry 5-24-19

the Water Buffalo

the 1st ripe Blueberries 5-23-19

Vew from the truck on water tranfer day 5-21-19

Fresh harvested young Sassafras Leaves for making Gumbo Filé 5-20-19

Baby Nasturtiums between Blueberry Plants 6-16-19

CatTail Harvest 5-16-19

Cucumber Fence in Front of Rows of Lettuce 5-14-19

1st Garlic Scapes of the Year 5-14-19

Some Potato Rows in the Hay 5-14-19

Some Onion Rows in the Hay 5-14-19

Stevia Rows Seeded Next To Garlic 5-1-19

Nasturtium Tire 5-1-19

Echinacea Triangle 5-1-19

Cucumber, Lettuce an Spinach Seeded 5-1-19

Edging Seed Lines Through the Hay 4-30-19

25 Early Glow Strawberries planted 4-25-19

25 Seascape Strawberries planted 4-25-19

25 Sparkle Strawberries planted 4-25-19

25 Mary Washington Asparagus planted 4-24-19

25 Purple Passion Asparagus planted 4-24-19

Spring Water 4-24-19

Spring Flowers

Zinga Cleans up after the PotLuck

Nasturtium Tire Seat at the Fire Pit 4-17-19

Oveview at the 1st water transfer of the year 4-15-19

Red Marconi Sweet Pepper in a Jug 4-9-19

Early Girl tomatoes in individual greenhouses 4-3-19

the sun sets on our tree planting project 3-27-19

Tree planting crew 3-23-19

The auger broke down with a hundred holes left to dig.so we had to finish it the old fashioned way.

planting trees on the downside of our hay swales

the ever changing tree planting map

Restocking Bass adding some minnows and a couple of grass carp 3-21-19

Augering holes for hundreds of trees. 3-15-19

Future long Bus/RV parking

transplanting Spinach starts 3-10-19

Prepping the 1st River plantings Tom Thumb Lettuce, Mache and Spinach 3-10-19

Zinga Kitty Kitty watches us setup rows in the River.

Starting to mark off rows in the River 3-8-19

Another layer of hay added to the Garden of the Sun 3-8-19

Fresh seeds to the rescue 3-8-19

Algae starting to form on the sides of the pond 3-7-19

Over winter station positioned under a skylight in the shop 3-5-19

Come out to see WAFers Ally as Elly May and Gianni as Mr Dresydale

Garlic - Elephant, Inchellium Red, Music - 3-1-19

Garlic - Chesnook Red, Silver White, Metechi - 3-1-19

3 Terrorists :~) Bagging their heads to retain moisture and heat to encourage more rapid colonization of the log 2-27-19

Hot Shake Mushroom Totems - should fruit when it's too hot for the other Shitake... in about 2 years... 2-27-19

Layer of Hot Shitake Sawdust Mushroom Spore and a layer of log 2-27-19

Oak Logs for Shitake Mushroom Totem Poles 2-26-19

Couch in the woods 2-8-19

digging up potting soil from the center of a rotten stump 2-2-19

The end of using heavy black plastic as no till ground cover. It does not hold up to a full season without disintegrating.

No till, but littering plastic bits everywhere

The end of using heavy black plastic as ground cover. It does not hold up to a full season without disintegrating.

The final straw for no till plastic in this 1 straw revolution

Mushroom logs placed in the woods 1-4-19

We're now part of the Kentucky Proud program

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