HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALEX!

Alex, 1989. One year-old.

Monday is Pick Up Day at Chewonki

Can't wait to give this guy a BIG hug!

Carnival Day at Chewonki. Photos from the camp web-site. 

Tomato Hornworms, for Bob!

See how big and fat these monster munchers are next to Jack's hand.

Bob requested a photo of our Tomato Hornworms. I had to incapacitate two today.

Harvest, August 6

This sunflower is called "Peach Passion." It's a keeper for cut flowers. 

I'm gonna have to learn to pickle the cukes soon!

Jack and I taste-tested the mini-watermelons. A few more weeks.

"Provider" beans. 

Jack's Jalapeno peppers. He bought the seedling at the Potomac School "Farm Market" in May.

Three buckets of flowers today! Snapdragons are today's favorite.

More Pictures from Chewonki!

Naish and friends!

Looks like Naish is gaining some fire-making skills

One more week of camp. Looks like he's having a blast, but I can't wait to see him.

End of July Farm Work

Honing the plow

Jack the Mower.

Art the Plowman.
(We are reclaiming this old garden dump site to create a shaded picnic area).

Jack and Art built a new wood-hauling cart.
(The old one had an unfortunate encounter with a certain new tractor). 

All done and ready to haul!

Sorry, but I can't resist .... more flowers!

haul logs, boulders, and stones away from the old dump site
             to the new one

hone the plow blades

plow old dump site
make home-made mulch, i.e. stomp on the bark
              from the pine stumps split last week

mow, weed-wack, and mulch blueberry bushes

weed the flower and veggie rows

mow lawn (this is now a 4-hour ordeal)

pick and/or dead-head flowers

attempt to repair the garden drip tape (and fail)

treat flowers and veggies for bugs

smoosh as many japanese beetles as my stomach can take

hunt and kill a voracious tomato hornworm 

harvest zucchini, sugar-snap peas, cucumbers, and basil

"turn" the baby watermelons (gently!)

pick what may be a few of the last pints of blueberries

seed another crop of buckwheat in the orchard site
run to the farming books to see what the hell is up next

Pesto Making

Art and Naish planted this garlic in November 2009. We harvested over a 100 heads
which are hanging in the "curing" shed.  This variety is organic "Purple Wild."
Seed garlic was from the Cox family at Tuckaway Farm in Lee, NH.

Genovese Basil started from seed in D.C. in April.

Pesto Pasta Eating!

I made pesto on Friday afternoon with our own garlic and basil. I used some for our pasta dinner with Beth, Don, Misa, and Larry and then squeezed the rest into an ice cube tray and froze it for winter cooking and eating. I have to do another big batch before we head to Woods Hole and the basil that's running amok in the garden starts flowering.