A (not yet complete) compendium of pictures on the farm from 2015. Please excuse the captions, it is currently impossible to change captions for individual instances of a picture on a WordPress site (meaning that if I change or delete the caption here, the caption will change on the blog post these pictures are from.)
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- Shoveling compost takes a lot of strength! Pictured: (from left to right) Fletcher Horowitz, Miranda Wilcha, Monica Wentz, and Benji Helbein.
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- Spreading compost is not the most glamorous farm job, but it is necessary and still fun in groups.
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- The proper technique for using a stake driver this heavy is to guide and let it’s weight do all the work
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- Sarah wrapping the twine carefully around each stake
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- Sarah, going along the row with a mallet to put the stakes in a straight line, perpendicular to the ground
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- Sarah, dropping the compost right up against the plant. The closer you get at this step, the less time you have to waste later!
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- Me, pulling the compost into place with a hoe. This is one of the few jobs on the farm that actually uses a traditional flat hoe.
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- The plants can get pretty nestled in, potatoes are hardy and covering them is the point of this method!
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- A row of potatoes, pre-hilling
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- An early White Chrysanthemum, or mum.
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- Close up of the unique Bachelor’s Button
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- A pink Echinacea flower.
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- A yellow Echinacea whose petals haven’t opened yet!
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- This is Holly Hock, grown by a member of the community garden.
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- Classic red-orange Marigolds
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- This pink pom-pom is the flower of the Common Milkweed plant. Bees and Butterflies can’t get enough!
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- A robust, pink Zinnia
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- This is a fancy variety of maroon and yellow Marigold.
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- Baby Zinnias!
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- An orange Zinnia
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- LaFFCo member Peter tends to his tomatoes
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- The saddest tomato harvest. Each of these tomatoes represents wasted energy from the soil, plant, and our labor
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- The beans right after the hail storm of June 30th
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- A Black Swallowtail butterfly
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- The Red Admiral
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- This is a Silver-Spotted Skipper
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- An American Lady on Pink Echinacea
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- This seems to be either a Tawny Emperor or a Meado Fritillary Butterfly on a Zinnia
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- This beautiful butterfly is most likely the Variegated Fritillary
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- This is actually a False Duskywing Butterfly
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- Sarah diligently spraying Surround on our eggplant
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- Half of our potato harvest from the 2nd, only two days after the storm. Luckily the tubers themselves were safe from hail and wind
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- The underside of a Painted Lady. Butterflies have one pattern for their upperside and another for the underside of their hindwing.
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- Against all odds, our eggplant has given us a good harvest more than once
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- Despite the previous damage, our Pattypan Squash have been producing well for harvest
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- The beats had oddly spotting germination, but are healthy.
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- We put these carrots in the ground under a row of peas we had to pull from the storm
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- A month later, and although we’ve seen some squash beetles, the winter squash has established itself decently
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- Beans 4 weeks after the storm
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- A beautiful tomato harvest from mid August.
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- A Monarch Butterfly! Our first sighting of Monarchs this year (2015) was on the 31st of July.
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- A beautiful Monarch on our Echinacea
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- A 4th instar Monarch Caterpillar on the Milkweed on LaFarm’s border.
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- The caterpillar of the euchaetes egle, known as the Milkweed Tussock Moth
