This week

Hi All,

I know it's probably hard to believe but we have been doing a few things other then chasing chicken predators around and trying to rid ourselves of these darn Japanese beetles! When you come down the drive to the farm, you'll notice a lot of covers on a lot of things. That's mostly because of the Japanese Beetles. Rocky 5 was captured Saturday night and released Sunday. We wish we had taken some pictures of the release. We let him out of the trap and he took off across a field of knee high grass and a couple of trees. He started to climb the first tree he came to, but came right down after a couple of feet and looked at us from behind the tree. Then he ran another twenty feet and we saw this masked face pop up above the grass level and looked at us again. It's just like us humans to put our minds into the head of a raccoon with a brain the size of an almond and who knows what he was thinking. It looked to us like he was saying, " Are you sure you want me to go? Are you positive? Oh, OK." No more sign of the hawk out back. We actually put the scarecrow, now dubbed scarehawk, behind the back barn by the broilers. We're also trying to show a little more human activity by walking back there more often and talking to ourselves loudly during the day to thwart any more attacks. If anyone happened to be in the woods behind the barn listening, I'm sure they would think we were nuts! I believe I had a conversation with a shovel out there today.

The blueberries are picked out until the late bushes ripen. That should be in a couple of weeks. We dug all the garlic this past weekend. There's about 1500 bulbs. About 300 German Red and the rest is Music, our favorite. The next couple of days will be spent sorting, tying and hanging the garlic in the barn to dry and cure. The garlic is usable fresh, it's amazing really, you just have to peel the cloves rather than pull the paper off them

This week along with our eggs we have:

Zucchini

Yellow Squash

Cucumbers

Beets

Carrots

Onions

Fresh Garlic

Green Beans will be picked and ready on Wednesday after noon

All organically grown!

Open 9-7 each day.

Hope everyone had a nice fourth!

Vicky and Steve