Farm Happenings

Weather: By the end of this year’s gray and rainy October, I had just about given up on the idea that we would get all of our roots out of the ground down at our rental property. We could run the root digger in the mud, and we could certainly pick by hand in the mud (not fun, but I’ve done it before), but we couldn’t get our wagons up the grass-and-mud road that ran through the forest and up the hill from that spot. And then, it dried out! Almost two full weeks without any significant rainfall have let us get caught up on our harvesting, and by the end of this week we should be fully caught up on our fall field work. What a blessing.

What We Did: Everything focused round roots harvest for the last two weeks. We lent the root digger to our friends at Featherstone Farm in exchange for them sending a large crew of workers our way to get the roots out that we couldn’t harvest with the machine. We moved greenhouses on Monday of this week to cover the outdoor greens.

Comings and Goings: My dad, Bob, came to stay for the month of October. He just graduated from the Rocky Mountain School of Photography in Missoula, so we’ve got an official staff photographer for the month! His fellow student, Sarah, joined us over the weekend for photo shoots and some graphic design work.