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| Beet thinnings |
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| Cabbage harvest |
Hello folks! Have you noticed that our posts are all out of order? I would say that is a symbolic representation of how I feel and perhaps the other students, and maybe profs as well. The school semester always has a habit of getting away with you, especially as it nears the end. When you combine that with agriculture season, which has the same tendencies, it makes for one deadly combination. Thus I will present to you a series of pictures, in no logical succession that will represents what we accomplished that day. Please note the lack of structure is this post is meant to be an artistic representation of chaos.
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| Carrot rust fly on sticky trap |
We started our day by doing the usual walk around and encountered many pests (see various pictures). After the walk around we tackled to major tasks: harvesting garlic from the experimental plot involving the planting of cloves from big heads garlic and small heads pf garlic to see if planting cloves from big heads actually guarantees production of big bulbs; and we harvested cabbage. Several other minor tasks involved research plot work, for example below you can see work done in the Nick's carrot and onion intercrop plot. I also saw will working in the orchard with the wheelhoe, and I did my usual pinching of flowers and runners in the strawberry patch for my season extension experiment.
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| Jordan cleaning the carrot aisles |
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| Mike and Nick examining fly traps for carrot rust fly and onion maggot fly |
Of course, as always there was weeding (not pictures below). We certainly accomplished a lot that day, which is important because it will help Torren, Grace, and Connor to keep up with the work on the farm. If that can't keep up though, that's normal, at least we (the students) will have had a break and put our full energy back into farm in September. Happy summer folks!
Hahaha Stark, you're too much!
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