Transition once again~ that time when all the media wants to write about farmers markets, and the Our Garden farmers are right in between crops. You want beets, or you want carrots? No lettuce: beets or carrots. No spinach: beets or carrots. No Coke only Pepsi.
But now we know to expect this, though it did catch Jesse off guard last Saturday. He had plenty to put on the shelf (beets, carrots, green onions, amaranth greens) but his mind was on Buster the cat who had been missing for 24 hours. Buster was his sister’s cat, so he is rather attatched. But Buster is one of those strong-willed cats (rather like his sister) and if he doesn’t want to come in, you can’t make him. Turns out Buster was fine. Probably he had seen the same coyotes Jesse had seen, and heard the same animal, cat or rabbit, being caught by the coyotes that Jesse had heard, and was smart enough to hide out up high for a while.
Meanwhile, back at the farm, we’ve got sweet onions recently dug, and garlic in the same state. The onions are more cured than the garlic, but if you are starving for fresh onions or garlic, as I am, they are both oh so welcome. I’m about to go out and swipe some to take to NM tomorrow.
I noticed a bird cover over one of the peach trees, so it won’t be long now.
The corn is starting to flower and the successive rows look fantasticly lush on a June day in the desert.
Squash is also flowering and it’s a sure thing we’ll run out of them when we start that harvest next week. You’ll have to wait for production to increase before we’ll have squash blossoms available. We need every flower possible to participate!
Jesse has a coyote cam going.. sort of a security camera, one of those wildlife cameras that is tripped by movement. He started using it by the chicken coop. One of those photos is in the garden building. More recently he set it to do a video, and last night we watched a movie of 2 coyotes running along the garden fence at 7am, right after Luna, the cat, took off. She didn’t need a camera to know danger was around. With the place across the street from us vacant, and another one up the hill from that one, the coyotes have set up residence. They can rest over there with no dogs to hassle them, and come over to the farm to eat. Jesse’s always respected them as wildlife that was here first, and his camera has enabled him to follow their habits and hopefully work around them.
That’s all for now, as I’m off to NM again. A picture of our progress is also in the garden building. And once again I apologize if the web site update is slightly off by the time another week goes by. Once we have an internet connection over there I’ll be able to update long distance, but in general it still gives an idea of what’s happening. Calling our phone number is also unpredictable. It is our home phone, and sometimes Jesse can come in and get the messages, but it might be days after you call as he has his hands full just watering and weeding.
!Hasta manana!
