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Sep12

Excuse me, where are my manners

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We have had a wave of exceptional help lately that has been a positive force in this whole circus.  I can say “Thank you” until I’m blue in the face at them, I still don’t think it would do justice to the amount of appreciation that Paul and I have.  Thank you again though, for good measure.

Everybody, meet Rose.

She has been a tremendous help for us these past few weeks.

This particular day we harvested the seeds from my spring cilantro and seeded a new bed with them.

Everybody, meet Beth.

Also a big help.  Beth is interning on the farm.

Everybody, meet our county fair Grand Champion!

Everybody, meet our first place winner!

Now in this picture are more volunteers, Jason and Jen.  I don’t have better pictures of them, sorry Jen and Jason.  They too are a great help.  This is a picture of the work party today.

Sep12

Community Garden shots and Beyond

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During the dry spell, I also took photos of the state of the Community Garden and our North beds.

Entry, south side.

Path, overgrown, but still there.  These next pictures are examples of what’s going on in the community garden as of two weeks ago, give or take a few days.  These examples show the effects of the heat and the lack of water.

Our neighbor Cliff planted Zinnias amongst his tomatoes, they were beautiful.  Even in this “on the way out” thing they had going on.

These next pictures are of the North beds.

Arkansas Travelers.

Weepy Okra.

Overgrown, dead, raspberries.

Cherry tomatoes.

“Rachel” peppers.

Watermelons, that never got any water.

Example of the heat.  Dead grass.

Cherokee Purples.

Brandywine, heirloom.

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Aug31

Dry and more dryness

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Our area of the world is extremely dry at the moment.  I returned to Arkansas from California anticipating rain and lushness.  It has not rained once since I’ve been back.  Due to this lack of moisture, a lot of our crops failed.  Here on the farm we have no water to irrigate with.  Well, we do, just no time or resources to make it happen.  We went into this year “dry farming”, which means we mulched the heck out of everything and let Mother Nature take over.  Imagine my fingers doing a pinching motion when I say we are this close to performing a rain dance.  Something has got to give!

A few days ago we planted lettuce, spinach, chard and kale seed in a bed in front of our house.  This means I have been hauling in water twice a day to water them in.  However, with low humidity and high winds I feel like my effort is futile.  We will see.