SSAWG | Experienced Organic Farmer Network

Early May- interior shot of greenhouse

Another interior shot - center bench, back bench with flats on the  germination mat

Another view of new and old greenhouses, another shot of the

Coldframes built and filling up fast (chicken wire fences out our

Chickens cleaned most of the weeds out of fava bean bed

Gloriosa Daisy harvest with the

Retired

Tractor equipment yard,

Hiller disces mounted on diamond tool bar

Close up of markers bolted onto tiller - they mark beds for transplants

More tilling, row markers on back flap

Over-wintered crimson clover, hairy vetch and winter rye -eggmobile on far edge of field

Grasses growing up in the paths between rows

Paths cultivated with tractor-mounted sweeps

Onions and early squash - onions mulched with leaves per Ellen

Late April- broccoli, cucumber trellises

Benefical wasp on cilantro bloom, yet another reason to let cilantro

Wash Station - bathtub, stainless steel sinks and washer used for spin drying greens

Early greenbeans planted between alternating strips of winter rye, later beans planted in rye beds.

Black Oil Sunflower cover crop

Purple and green basils are ready to harvest, they are very aromatic cutflowers

Mrs. Burns

Our potato plow- middlebuster/sweep mounted on subsoiler shaft

Screech Owl Farm Camp kids harvest the potatoes

Rose Gold potatoes loaded into the truck

Wide array of potato varieties draw dollar bills at market

Periwinkle Farm at farmers&rsquo; market in Pittsboro, NC

Bathtub of salad mix

Getting ready for market &ndash; flowers

Mixed bouquets packed into a carrying tub

Mix of summer flowers

Happy flower farmer - Cathy