Tuesday, October 11, 2011

so much happening on the farm so little time to post!



First off thank you to all that have placed your orders for our fall wines! The 2010 wine release has been very successful and the wines have been very well received - If you haven't gotten yours yet drop us a line and we'll ship them off to you!







The garden has been great this year Brian has lead the charge with beautiful beans, winter greens, potatoes and root vegetables among other things... I grew the broccoli, tomatoes, onions and cabbage and herbs and a few other odds and ends...








The animals are all doing well on the fall pastures which are lush and green and full on a second crop of white clover... we have also integrated our goats in with the cows to create a 'flerd' (flock and heard) that cooperatively graze! : )

Brian smoked Don and man is he tasty ! all the fall pork and chicken is safely tucked in the freezer... which is COMPLETELY full so everything else that comes in needs to be dried or canned from here on out...





Hence lots of canning is happening... about 40 Quarts so far and still more tomatoes and apples to go! We're lucky in some ways the grape harvest is so late gives us a chance to fill the larder.








I picked up only a small portion of the apple harvest - more still to go it's a beautiful crop I'm hoping to can apple juice...





all the wood is all stacked!! which was done with a lot of help from Mila who is a lovely young German woman who is staying with us this fall she has been a HUGE help on the farm not to mention a real pleasure to share our days with...







finally some shots of Mr Levi who is growing up beautifully !!


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Till the next post happy fall!! cheers ...

2 comments:

Joseph said...

Wozers - is that a new tractor? Your smile sure seems like it is???

Clare Carver said...

nope I wish I borrowed this form my neighbor for the pig slaughter the hubs was away - so this girl got the be in charge I think that's the smile you see : )