Ends and Beginnings: a scrapbook

Pickled green tomatoes with garlic and dill.

Pickled green tomatoes with garlic and dill.

Fall wines: perry and crabapple.

Fall wines: perry and crabapple.

Final peppers of the season

Final peppers of the season

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The last of the dill in the herb garden

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Winter squash is done

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Winter squash curing

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The season of the greens begins

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Young cockerels, soon to be coq au vin

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Steers on winter pasture

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The fig survived, barely, the polar vortex and has thrived this season

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The sheep graze

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The sheep expect

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Small hay barn is packed

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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.

Farm Scrapbook: January

Farm Cast: Brian

Farm Cast: Brian

Farm Cast: Cindy

Farm Cast: Cindy

Farm equipment at rest

Farm equipment at rest

Where work gloves retire

Where work gloves retire

His days grow short

His days grow short

 

An attempt at a scrapbook of our life on the farm starts with a bit of a cheat. The pictures of Cindy and me are from last summer. The other three are from this weekend. Change is in the air, however. We are to reach a balmy 52 degrees today, snow tonight and a high of 12 degrees on Monday.

I’ll return to a regular post next week. The next scrapbook will be in February.