Friends!

Today's post is about friends - both of the human variety and not.

Let's start with humans. We made our FIRST SALE yesterday!! We sold two 5 oz. bags of spinach to a couple friends of ours (and had some donations, besides!). Plus, there's even more people who are waiting to taste our delicious spinach. It's great to see that there are actually people who want to support us, and will choose our produce over the supermarket's! Even at $4.80 per pound, this is quite encouraging.

Secondly, we have a bunch of animal friends! (I know, usually animals are foes, but keep reading!) First, we have this killdeer who hangs around, often in the early morning. Here's what a killdeer looks like:

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He does this funny thing where he likes to run to each bed and stand on top of each one for a moment. It's so cute. And why is he a friend? Killdeer eat bugs that can be damaging to plants! Hooray for natural bug repellents! No silent spring necessary.

Next, there's this little milk snake:

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Just kidding! (About the 'little' part) He's about two feet long and Dan almost stepped on him! But he's definitely a friend, because milk snakes are not poisonous or otherwise dangerous to humans, and they love to eat rodents that might otherwise terrorize our veggies. No need for rodent poison either! I love natural solutions.

But I promised photos of the farm, didn't I? Unfortunately, I don't have my camera at the moment, and I was so eager to write this post, but let's see what Dan has on his camera:

Oh yeah... the day the cows ran down the road. We are fielding some cows for another farm, and one day I stepped out of my house and there were cows all over the place!

Okay, any pictures of the field?...

Here we go! There's the cauliflower on the left, kale in front, spinach two rows to the right, and then broccoli all the way on the right side. Even since this picture was taken, the field has gotten bigger and better. But where are the onions? The many MASSES of onions??

There they are! Sooo many onions. I just hope they all survive! And there's me, planting... more onions... and more onions... Man, I am glad that is over. Lets put it this way: In general, we have two rows of each crop. We have EIGHT rows of onions! That's a LOT of onions...

Other photos from Dan's camera? Here we go:

Jackie patrolling timidly...

The field...

Me on the bike that Dan fixed up, biking to the market to get dinner!

And a mother cow and calf straggling behind the rest of the herd...

And I promise... Photos galore are soon to come (from my camera this time! No offense Dan, your photos are lovely). Next time, on Clover Post... The spinach that sold, the raised bed crops, and more!

~Terra