A Thankful October on the farm!
Well, finally some cool weather! Fall has officially arrived after that heat wave of a dry summer! The men are leaving soon, but we use the last few weeks of October and the very beginning of November to get everything in the barn before the snow flies. Our onions were nice this year. We got a whole wack of garlic planted. We have a nice cabbage crop to put a way for trimming this winter. We'll be mass harvesting carrots and beets this coming week for the winter. This year was very busy, but pretty decent despite the drought. We are still selling peppers! The red Sheps were AMAZING this year. To the point we had a bumpercrop and couldn't even sell all of them! The cauli is small, but at least we have some! Apples were not as abundant but we found some to sell! The romas and ALL tomatoes were pretty good out in the fields this season. Particularly because we had them on drip and plastic mulch. The above pic was the tomato/pepper patch. It's always bi