Late September Photo Blog

David and Austin at Kauffman's Orchard for our fall farm tour.  We went to check out one of the only Certified Organic Orchards in South Eastern Pennsylvania.

Austin weighing and washing carrots.

Great bumper sticker #1.

Great bumper sticker #2.

These are some of the children of our CSA workshare families.  This year we had 2 workshare families and it made Friday afternoons more fun.

One of our beautiful heirloom tomato harvests.

Lynnie with the largest Swiss Chard leaf I have ever grown or seen.  It weighed 3/4 lb and I ate it for dinner.

Paul using our little garden tractor to move a big wagon with wood for the new greenhouse.

David and Sam in the field harvesting edible flowers.

Our heirloom tomatoes took center stage for the first Wyebrook farm dinner by chef Jonathon Adams from Pub & Kitchen in Philadelphia.

Greenhouse construction begins.

Sam is a super strong woman.  She can put more stakes in the ground than anyone.  She really showed up all the boys on the farm this year. 

Early September photo blog

Early September photo blog

Employee farm tour and dinner at Wyebrook farm.  Pictured left to right: Jill, Austin, David, Paul and Austin's wife Christie.

A new cherry tomato variety we grew this year Indigo Rose.  It is a really show piece at market.  I will have to grow it another year before I decide if it is worthy of staying as one of our best varieties.  Great tomato taste.  Time consuming to pick.

Defiant is a late blight resistant tomato we tried this year.  It was resistant but eventually it caved into the disease pressure.  Beautiful and sweet tomato.  Expensive seed.

David gave a fertilizer lecture for our Rt. 10 Organic Grower's and Nursery Tour this year.  The tour was a great success with good attendance. 

Paul mixing up his secret blends of fertilizers.  An organic guru.

My favorite place on the farm is down in the lower pasture by the creek.  It is so quite here.  And the bird life down here is incredible.  I have seen on a regular basis: blue and green herons, cooper's hawks, red tail hawks, kestrels, king fishers, blue birds, gold finches, kill- deer, and bald eagles. 

This is a tomato horn worm.  They are incredibly beautiful and destructive.  I have seen more this year than any other.  I could consistently pull off 20 in one day.

A beauty foggy morning greens harvest.

My favorite cat Butters hiding in the van with us in the rain. 

Butters in his nest in the lilac tree.

Blackberries!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Yum!

Late August Photo Blog

Betty watching over the berry harvest early in the morning from the top of my car.

Oh beautiful Swiss Chard you were so good to us this year. 

Our CSA boxes come with bundles of colorful love.

My favorite beans... Dragon Beans.  They taste like an Italian pole bean but grow in a convenient bush.

A crazy dragonfly I found in the carrot patch.

Purple is my favorite color.  I love all these shades of lavender and dark purple.

This is Betty napping by our "Garden" sign.  She was here when PBS came to film the farm for a cooking show.  Betty is very photogenic.

Using the moldboard plow for deep tillage in the space where the new greenhouse is going.  This plow will move the soil back up hill.  It is amazing how fast the soil creeps downhill.  Luckily most of our fields are flat.

This picture is hard to see but in the foreground is a a praying mantis skin and in the background on the leaf is the praying mantis.  Did you know they shed their skins almost 8 times in their short lifetime?

Summer Beauty at it's finest.