This year’s garlic crop was the best yet, and a big improvement and expansion on last year’s experiment. I honestly take out the storage tray about once a day and just look at them. Aside from being tasty and nutritious, they are just a beautiful thing to grow and store. I’m so happy with them.
This was also a very promising first experiment year for our red potatoes, with a nice harvest for eating and sharing, and lots of lessons learned for the expansion next year. Harvest is always fun, but there is something especially satisfying about unearthing potatoes, like digging up treasure. Each of these Pontiac reds is definitely that. They’re so tasty.
Ragwort may be an introduced species to the Northwest, but I love it anyway. I’d never plant it or intentionally spread it, and we will be working to replace some of it with native species, but I can’t find it in my heart to dislike such a pretty plant, and one that our pollinators like bees and hoverflies just love.
On a hot day in mid-July, I was taking a break in the shade, when I saw something move. I grabbed my binoculars, hopeful that the movement along one of our big mossy tree trunks might be a brown creeper or nuthatch. Instead, this adorable little chipmunk popped out and stared at me for a solid five minutes. Please excuse the extreme zoom and crop on this one – it doesn’t do his cuteness justice – but it’s still one of my favorite moments on the farm this month.
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