This has been a truly fantastic fall. The trees are just amazing. This time of year we are starting to wind down the gardens and get ready to put them to bed for the winter. We started this about a week ago. My brother-in-law has been helping out a little lately. He feels he is one with the weeds. He has been pulling lots and lots of weeds, spent plants and anything else that is left over in the raised beds and putting them in the compost pile.
He doesn't understand my love affair with my compost piles. You ought to hear him when I tell him that the tracter bucket full of debris is destined for the compost pile. If he stays around long enough he will find out where we farmers get our black gold.
Much of my time as of late has been working in the kitchen getting orders for our PourAPie ready and shipped to the various markets. I have also been making quite a bit of apple butter. I have been co-packing it for another greenhouse. But, I finally got outside to the garden and got the garlic planted for the winter. So far, I have planted strawberries, asparagus and now garlic. I am so excited, I have never had this much of a jump start on the spring before.
I have also started rosemary in the seedling room. Doesn't look like it though. Hope the package wasn't mismarked.
So now you know what I have been up too. Just the ususal. Tooling with the idea of milk goats for spring. Any ideas? Thinking of adding cheese to the line.
See ya on the farm
Charlotte
