Pickled green tomatoes with garlic and dill.
Fall wines: perry and crabapple.
Final peppers of the season
The last of the dill in the herb garden
Winter squash is done
Winter squash curing
The season of the greens begins
Young cockerels, soon to be coq au vin
Steers on winter pasture
The fig survived, barely, the polar vortex and has thrived this season
The sheep graze
The sheep expect
Small hay barn is packed
Fresh composted manure for all of the fruit and nut trees. Here is a load for a two year old hazelenut
This time of year is filled with completing chores from the last season and beginning the ones for the new season. Whether pickling the last of the green tomatoes or fattening the lambs for December holiday plates we are busy. Hope you are all taking time to enjoy this beautiful fall.
Very nice!!!
Thanks. Been doing any mushroom hunting this fall?
Visual poetry – with everything ripening for the golden feast – to match the text-poem in your previous post. Thank you!
I’m happy to see that your fig is doing well. Many of the fig trees in my area not only were damaged by the unusual cold, but also were attacked by ambrosia beetles later in spring in one of those “adding insult to injury” moments that can be so annoying.
-Amy
The fig died back completely. I cut everything down to the roots with the hopes that the roots had survived. Long about April shoots began to come up with some vigor. No harvest this year. The first year growth does not yield until late fall. But next year it should begin cropping in June. That is unless another polar vortex comes to visit.