Laboring on Labor Day

Our thanks to the IS 101 classes who came out to the farm on Labor Day! There were tours, chances to watch turkeys chase cucumbers, a rainbow of sliced tomatoes and some interesting tasks for all.

As a tribute to these efforts we submit the following photos:

The tractor is there for decoration. It's the leaning pole that was sunk all the way to China that was a task for this day.

Eventually, this building WILL get painted. Much thanks to those who kindly scraped on this side of it to prepare it for further work this month.

Oh, and now we can keep an eye on the chickens with the tall ragweed down!

And, the tall weeds along the new poultry palace have been under attack all season. It looks like we may finally be winning the battle!



And the garlic is cured, so it is time to trim off the stems and the roots so they are ready for the CSA, for seed and for other sales.

It's always a good thing when you can SEE the swiss chard and the beets. It is especially important to allow for ease of picking the chard. It gets tedious pulling out grass and other weeds when we cut the chard.

Our poor peppers. They've not had a very good year. But, the weeds were removed so we can do some cover cropping in here.

And salvaged wood is only good if the old nails are removed. Excellent!

And, when you want to use a chicken shelter made of wood, a new coat of paint can help make it last.

And that pole we mentioned at the beginning? The crew would not desist until it succumbed to their combined efforts. The original goal was to take it out in one piece. But, hey - we did mention that the thing went down quite a bit. We contacted BP to tell us how to cap the well we had to dig to get this one out. They had no suggestions that worked. So, we simply filled the hole up with dirt. Seems to be fine now.