Animals

Birds! We have birds!

Well, of course we have birds at the farm, but what kind of birds?  A fellow volunteered to help identify birds and yesterday, a walk through the farm revealed 10 bird species. He identified: 1 Great Blue Heron 1 Northern Flicker 2 Steller’s Jay 4 Western Scrub-Jay 30 Barn Swallow 1 […]

Farm Status

End of summer in the garden

We may be nearing the end of summer, but growth and change go on. The gold raspberries are still producing fruit, and of course the zucchini plants are bountiful. We have buckwheat planted in the farmhouse garden as a cover crop. The two hydrangea bushes continue to put out new […]

Farm History

How about them apples?

We have apple trees on the farm. Of course, we have no idea what varieties they might be. We have a red-and-green apple on a dwarf-sized tree, very productive. We have a green apple that isn’t ripe yet (seeds are white), and a striped apple that is very sweet. And […]