Green Beans/Yellow Wax Beans .................. $1.50/bag
Onions ........................................................ $0.75
Radishes (are back!) .................................... $1.00/bundle (~5)
Beets .......................................................... $1.00/bundle (~4)
Zucchini ...................................................... $0.75/ea
Summer Squash (Crookneck or Patty Pan) ... $0.75/ea
Cucumbers ................................................. $0.50/ea
Carrots ....................................................... $1.50/bundle (~6)
Soft-neck Garlic ......................................... $1/bulb
Kale ............................................................ $1.50/bundle
Eggs (From the Fletchers) ............................ $2/dozen
This is our current list! (not bad!)
Still battling with hornworms and other pests (Potato beetles attacked one of the groups of potatoes and completely demolished it! Agh!)
The other day I worked on building "squash towers", which was basically a desperate attempt to get the butternut squash away from the other plants, composed of 6 big saplings trussed together in a teepee shape with branches woven in between. I then wound the vines up and around the structure. Who knew that winter squash sent out such ridiculous vines?? I guess I should have known, but I wasn't ready! Next year I will be though. We're planning a whole separate field for winter squash - the way it should be!
Speaking of next year, we've been having a lot of conversations on that subject. As of now, we are planning on continuing, but it's going to rely heavily on the support of our friends and the community. We don't want our work and learning experiences to go to waste! If we do continue, here's (approximately) what it will (probably) look like:
A field for squash and a field for corn (perhaps manifesting itself into a "3 sister's garden", which we considered doing this year but determined it was not feasible with the time we had left.) So where our big garden is now, there may be a giant garden of corn, beans, and squash.
Perhaps something new and exciting!! We have lately been considering the prospects of honey, perhaps with a lovely field of berries to support it. We also have come back around to the idea of planting some christmas trees, as an investment in the future (they take about 5 years to mature from the size that we would buy them).
A weekly appearance at a farmer's market (or two or three!) We plan on re-applying to the Peterborough farmer's market and the Hancock Farmer's market, and we are still working on establishing a trendy new co-op sort of market in Greenfield for farmers, gardeners, home gardeners, bakers, and anyone who produced food and wants to share it with their community. I see no reason why Greenfield shouldn't be able to entirely support its community's food needs, given the amount of land we have and the number of people who have picked up gardening and farming and want to learn more!!
And altogether, hopefully the farm will be more established, a blooming business that is perhaps beginning to stand on its feet, or even just a comfortably large home garden that shares itself with the community. Whatever it ends up as next year, we hope that we continue to be supported in the endeavor and that we can keep working toward a positive change in our community! A garden is never a bad thing to have.
-Terra
PS. Pictures soon, I promise. Just gotta keep bugging Dan. :)
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