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A Couple of Farm Lads Getting Dragged Behind a Tractor on Pumpkin-Planting Duty.
We’ve planted 10,000 strawberry plants by hand. We’ve pounded umpteen hundred tomato stakes by hand. We do lots of hard work the old-fashioned way. Other times we use advanced technology, like this tractor-pulled planter. The metal wheel makes a hole … Continue reading
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Fresh Crop Alert – Strawberries! Here! Now!
Come on down to the farm! It is time to pick strawberries! You can hand-pick in the Berry Patch, or buy quarts that we’ve picked for you. Remember those green strawberries we looked at last week? Now they are red, … Continue reading
First Crop Alert – Strawberries in June!
Hey, y’all. Happy holidays! It’s almost time for a bowl of fresh-picked strawberries! I just went crawling around the strawberry field and found something pretty great… Thousands of these! Bam! Of course some of the berries are still at the … Continue reading
Farm Pop Quiz: Why Does 6+1=0?
Take 6 divine little apple buds, tenderly formed and full of promise… Add 1 chomp by a woodland hoodlum… And you get zero apples. See, 6 + 1 = 0. Strange but true. You might remember from Miss Crabapple’s biology … Continue reading
Spring Blossoms of Peach, Nectarine, Apple, and Pear.
There are a few days in spring when the orchards pop with blossoms. Wind, rain, and biology conspire to make the show short-lived. You have to enjoy the blooms while they last, and get photos on the spot or wait … Continue reading
The Birds and the Breeze in Yonder Hilltop Meadow.
Spring on the farm, before the first mowing. The grass is long, dandelions are tall, and everything waves in the wind. Set the camera in an old apple tree, up in the meadow near Stumphenge.
Tomato Flags Send Blessings Over Finger Lakes Farm Country as They Blow in the Spring Breeze.
Kind of like Tibetan prayer flags send blessings over the snowy mountaintops of the Himalaya. Meanwhile, there is some controversy over whether all these varieties are properly called heirlooms. Oh, well, someone will figure it out.
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Tiny Baby Farm Bird Says, I Can Has Wormburger?
Everything on the farm becomes a habitat. Not least the old Ford tractor, because in a bird-eat-bird world, you don’t thumb your beak at an iron-clad condo with sweeping views. The farm hawk, among other predators, isn’t going to divebomb … Continue reading
Duct Tape on Tractor Raggles Like the Flag of Some Beseiged Province.
If, for your evening walk, you should like to pass a few minutes untroubled by world affairs, it is best to avoid an encounter with duct tape. Today I was not so fortunate. Someone, somewhere, is in a bloody fight … Continue reading
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