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Andy’s Chinese-style raised beds and low-resource trellising setup.

A bubbling broth of aerated compost tea

Hairy Vetch Flowers. We use Hairy Vetch as a nitrogen fixing and weed supressing cover crop.

Mounds for Winter Squash in a strip-tilled plot. (More on strip-tillage in a future post)

As a gardener for a seed company it is my duty to grow turnips. As communards it is their duty to eat them – I wish!

Crimson Clover. A visually delightful cover crop.

Barn and Chicken Yard

The greenhouse is so full!

Peas and Radishes

Garlic in the foreground and the farmhouse in the background.

Heartwood, new siding on the left, old siding on the right.

Secret Blue Bell Patch!

Spring beauties in the lowland woods by the river.

I need to identify this mushroom…

Not snow but flowers

More Blue Bells.

Greenhouse Seedling

Bees!

Red Maple Flower

The Fall Garden, flourishing after a winter slowdown.

Purple Dead Nettle: One of the first flowers.

Thriving Mustards from last fall.

Daffodil Patch by the Farmhouse

Bush Cherry

Just Transplanted

May apples are poping up.

Plum Tree. Looks like the frosts spared the flowers, so hopefully we’ll have plums.