Harvest day

In addition to 3 1/2 cups of berries from the woods, some lovely vegetables were harvested at the neighborhood garden today. Here are a cabbage, some onions and three cucumbers.

For the berries, 1 1/2 cups of raspberries were picked, along with a cup each of blueberries and blackberries. They've looked really good this year, even with all the rain.

Picture for the season

Mid-July means raspberries! These beauties, one cup of fruit, were picked this morning, the second small harvest so far. More berries are coming in throughout the forest. It's a berry nice time of year, except for the humidity, quite high for about two weeks! Relief arrives soon, thankfully.

Kale and radishes

The raised garden bed has produced many great radishes this summah, as well as huge leaves of kale. This picture shows this morning's harvest.

Recent forest work

Thanks to a variety of tools and carrying of downed biomass, some future firewood and kindling has been stacked near the house. Axe work this morning, a very beautiful day after lots of weekend rain, added to this nice pile.

Thinning constitutes important work in the forest as an effort to improve chances for survival of other trees. Yet, so many places will remain untouched, like this fine birch grove.

Natural color

Late spring means daisies and lupine!! Cloudy and rainy lately, but our seasonal flowers have been really pretty this year!

The Light of June

The month with the most daylight started with plenty of it! A completely blue sky has dominated the day, although the low temp at the house belies the brightness. We were 42 degrees, with the temp down the hill perhaps 36. Daylights started a bit after 4 a.m. There will be a hint left at 9:30 p.m. What a fine day to be a solar panel!

Gardening update

Old boards were removed from the east garden bed recently. Today a new raised garden bed was installed on the spot! Some old biomass was tossed in. Compost and soil will then fill in the 8' x 4' space. 

 The old asparagus bed has produced quite nicely this spring. Here is today's harvest.