As the 2013 harvest season has come to a close (except for kale, we've still got scads of it in the gardens that will hopefully be around till January, if it's like the kale last year) I will share some pictures of what our urban farm looked like this year.
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| Our glorious magnolia tree in the front yard |
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| Pretty baby in a pretty tree |
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| Camo boots! |
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| Rowan "helping" his Papa plant seeds |
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| Most of the "helping" consisted of eating compost |
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| A few weeks later, the baby greens started growing |
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| Squash leaf |
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| Cilantro |
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| Guerrilla mint plant | | | | |
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| Borage for the bees, tea from the leaves is also supposed to be a good adrenal tonic |
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| Bee collecting pollen |
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| Gardens getting a drink |
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| Cosmos and basil in the failed baby greens garden |
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| Pretty old birdhouse we found on the side of the road |
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| Rainbow swiss chard |
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| Ruby red swiss chard |
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| Baby tomato |
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| Pink Brandywine (I think) |
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| Gorgeous Lacinato (Dinosaur) kale |
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| Shoo Fly flower |
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| Shoo Fly, a little birdie must have "dropped" a seed at the edge of our garden fence and this beautiful plant popped up, uninvited, but very welcome |
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| Chicken coop in spring. Two of our red hybrid chickies disappeared this fall :'( |
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| So we got some new ones! Molly in the foreground, Persephone in the back |
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| Libby the fierce looking Ameraucana. She'll lay turquoise eggs...if she ever starts laying |
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| Ruby the gentle looking Ameraucana |
We also have Nellie the Naked Neck (Turken) and Minnie the Buff Minorca chickens, but they were moulting badly and not looking their best on picture day.
Our square foot gardens also yielded an abundance of six or seven types of tomatoes in all colours, dill, basil, cilantro, Red & While Russian kales and Fordhook Giant Swiss chard.
We bought most of our seeds this year from
Hawthorn Farm Organic Seeds.
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