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The long slow climb of daylight. We'll be collecting scions and grafting in no time. Happy Solstice.

Don't forget to protect your fruit trees. I missed these, but aluminum foil worked all last winter. Simple and cheap.

Trying to overwinter some leeks. Not sure this variety will make it.

In the stacks downtown, an odd place to dry a rose.

A little hard cider for the holidays

This year's seedlings out of the air prune boxes.

Can't wait to see the baby orchard all grown up.

Red Oak Bonsai grown from acorn, not that I know anything about bonsai. Just winging it.

Garlic planting season

Lots of tasty leeks this year. I planted in an offset grid and they were a pain to weed. Next year I'm going to try...

How about them apples

Summer is almost gone, but such an amazing sunrise.

Bit of a rusty project for late summer.

Allen's Everlasting X Court Pendu Plat seedling

This year's apple grafts on M111 rootstock doing pretty well. Williams Pride, Liberty, Priscilla, Sweet Spice and fr...

More Monarchs, less lawn

Garden, bees, and internet

I always grow extra dill for the black swallowtails.

Deer can be the worst. Green all around and you eat a corn stalk??

Down a corn row in the garden. A beautiful day to be outdoors.

Happy Solstice

Find a local farm or grow your own. Strawberry freezer jam season.

Careful out there weeding.

Experimenting with native companion planting in the year old apple orchard. Planting Partridge Peas.

New quince tree already flowering

So many robins getting busy this year.

Alley cropping the 1 year old orchard. Grow some food while my apple trees grow up.

Grafted my first columnar apple this year. Maypole.

That is a very red apple seedling. All seed was collected from a local orchard.

lost my best friend tonight.

#orchardlife #homestead #gardening #garden #spring #flowers #crocus

Grafting the future espalier row.

Grafts are already budding.
Skinner's Seedling.

Happy Spring
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Maples are flowering. Spring is on the way.

Rossa di Milano onions from @experimentalfarmnetwork harvested in late July. Saved a few for seed. Great keeper.

Such a great day.

Wing prints in the snow 🇺🇦

Snow on the ground and the first sowing of the year. Spring is on the horizon. 🇺🇦
Onions and Leeks from @baker...

Someone had a winter snack.

"Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could b...

#ukraine

Its cold and spring seems far off, but the greenhouse vent started to open today.

#moon #clouds #nightsky

Always wonder if these home soil tests are accurate.