Well, Mom here – filling in until next week. It has been crazy since October, planting and weeding the fall/winter crops (lettuce, kale, spinach, arugula, baby choi, bak choy, mustards, collards, turnips, carrots, beets). We had such a good thing going. Ate what we could. Covered the delicate crops (lettuce, kale, choys, mustards) and things were going great. Then sometime in the middle of November, a big gust of wind blew my plastic cover off my low hoop house during the “freezing” night, and all was gone. I wanted to cry, but as my youngest says, “that's life on the farm, Mom” (sometimes I can't stand it when she stuff like that, but she's right). So on with the holidays, family, friends...

Now I am planning the beds for our early spring crops and summer crops. We're going through seed catalogs and our stored seeds. Next nice weather, it's out in the garden preparing early beds, mulching, staking rows, etc. It seems like just yesterday and all was lost in the garden, and it's time to pick up again. Can't wait.

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Bluebird here,

Happy autumn, my favorite thing mom cooks this time of the year is great beef stew poured into a hollowed out pumpkin and then baked for an hour. What’s also great is our chickens are laying a bunch of eggs.
The other day our fields were hayed, only with a large bailer (goats are easier to feed hay with square bales).

Last Saturday we went to the farmers market early to set up, and it was really cold (thankfully it warmed up), there was apples, corn, (great) pumpkins, mums, eggs, and a wide variety of greens along with some other vegetables. your suppose to plant fall seeds in the middle of august and we did but then they dried out, so we planted again then it flooded so they all washed away, we planted yet another time and then once more and they're starting to come up, especially the carrots. And for safe keeping we have some planted in flats. My favorite is Chinese mustard, it’s a dark purple at its best (haven’t ate it yet). Along with fresh figs, you cant beat this season.

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