Winding up.

We finished planting twenty-six acres of garlic on Friday. Through the bitter cold, uncomfortable implement, frozen fingers and probably about a million sunflower seeds between the seven or eight of us, we persevered!! We also moved a bunch of row cover, and by a bunch, I mean a ton... from one of the silos to a trailer for the winter on Monday. We finished the Brussels sprouts field on Tuesday. Did we do much else besides that this week? Nope! Season's winding up! Corn, carrots, parsnips and rutabagas all harvested and cleaned from the fields. Winter is eminent! Here are the pics of the week:

Nov 12

The last seven standing... or riding, that is. The shadows of our last seven interns in between moving row cover on a flat bed pulled by the tractor.

Nov 13

Small "field trip" into the dried commodity corn at Black One during lunch Tuesday. We were in adjacent Black Two harvesting Brussels sprouts.

Nov 14

Our crew leaving what feels like an endless field of garlic in Pie One on Wednesday. From Left, Chris, Mitty, Joshua, Isaac, Katie and Rachel.

Nov 15

Another day's wrap up after some cold garlic planting. Katie, Chris and Rachel, walking to the truck past one of the farm's natural springs.

Nov 16

Austin, Nate, and Mitty, throwing cloves in celebration of completing 26 acres of two varieties of garlic over two different fields on Friday.

Nov 17

So, this Saturday marked a pretty special day... Garett's and my first day working on what will next year be the site of our market garden, the first step toward our own farm! We are cultivating about half an acre in Golden with the aim of doing farmer's markets and having a small garden membership. We planted two varieties of garlic Saturday, courtesy of Grant Farms!

Garett (my husband!), planting soft neck garlic. Roger (my dad!) with a hoe on the left.

Keeping pests out of the field! Me with Teddy and some hard neck garlic (my fav!) with my dad hard at work in the background! 

Bonus Foto(s):

Rachel, making it rain with our commodity feed corn from the top of the grain silo on Monday!

This field be planted, yo! Garlic in your face next spring in Pie One!!

A blustery, cold, garlicky week! We nevertheless had a great time though, as always. I think this week's pics definitely speak for themselves. Gearing up for a short but sweet week next week, and getting ready to enjoy the bounty of our season's harvest for Thanksgiving!! 

XO,

Val