UNbelieveable! We are out of June! Tuesday we finished planting the Greeley field with bell peppers and even did a cheer- "No More Peppers!!" We are pretty much wrapped up with planting for the season, besides possibly some root veggies, and I truly can't believe how quickly the past three months have flown by. Monday was spent harvesting peas and radishes, and Wednesday we spent the day pruning our tomato crop in Pie Four and beginning to trellis our indeterminates before we were rained out by a massive and wonderful storm. Thursday was more of the same but started the day with harvesting some beautiful radishes from our Fisher Field, and Friday was brutal but successful with two groups of us harvesting garlic from our Matsuda 8 field and continuing to trellis at Pie Four. Pics of the week forthcoming below:
June 25
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Courtesy of Rachel (thanks!); Kyle doing yoga in the cottonwoods at lunchtime in Pie Four
after harvesting peas all morning. We spend so much time bent over, stretching is critical!! |
June 26
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Abby and Alyssa finishing the red bell peppers in our Greeley Field. They
also may possibly be breakdance fighting. |
June 27
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| Stephanie pruning some monster heirloom tomatoes in Pie Four. Ian, Ken, Katie and others in the background. |
June 28
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| Harvesting Radishes in our Fisher Field! From left (people who's backs I can recognize!): Alex, Alyssa ?, Megan, Ian, Justin, Ryan, Colten, Kyle, ?, Eric, Jacob, Tanea, Stephanie, Sarah, Jessica, Elena, Ken and Abby. Beautiful Colorado day!! |
June 28
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At the end of a brutal day, we celebrated Katie's and my half birthday and had an
animal party! Here, me as a Goat, and Katie as a Squirrel! More animal pics to
follow in the bonus fotos! |
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Bonus Fotos:
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| One of our first beautiful heirloom tomatoes in Pie Four! |
Animal Party Fotos:
It had to happen. People's costumes were pretty bomb.
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| The Sea Squad: Elena as whale, Jessica as Fish, Lucia as Seahorse, Hollis as Pilot Fish. I think Jess may be trying to drink Hollis's drink in this shot... |
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| The bug crew: Abby as Earthworm, Alex as Banana Slug, Rachel as Cucumber Beetle, Sarah as Bumble Bee! |
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| Hor D' Oeuvres time! Eric as Lion, Rachel, Katie, Ken as Rooster, Abby, Lucia, Richie (lovin' the croc/ cowboy boot combo), and Isaac, who refused to wear the kitty ears I brought for him. Don't ask me why... |
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| Sums up the whole night. Justin as the Hulk. smashing a PBR into my head. |
Great week as always! We are now moving into vegetable maintenance and cultivation. Lots of weeding and pruning and trellising ahead! Record hot temps this last week too! Welcome to July, and full fledged summer! And for those of you who were trying to comment and couldn't, I've adjusted the settings and now you should be good to go. Thanks for letting me know!
XO,
Val
Hi Valerie! Enjoying your farmfotos and the yummy stuff in my share every week.
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading Mary! I know we are harvesting some awesome new crops for our CSA now, enjoy!!
DeleteLove the costumes... I'm looking forward to visiting the farm. I was thinking pumpkin season - fall would be a lot of fun or at least when the temps come down some.... You and Garett have a great time this weekend
ReplyDeleteThanks Helen! I had a great time showing Garett the farm, well, what I could anyway as we got quite a bit of rain this weekend! The costumes were weird, but it was super fun to do something different! I think Katie's squirrel costume got the prize.
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