SWEET PEPPERS  our pepper plants are growing gang-busters.  These waist-high plants are loaded with ripening fruits.  Our favorite, Carmen, has a slender sweet red fruit.

TOMATOES  Another nice round from our little tomato patch.  We have now picked over a ton (that’s 2,000 lbs. folks off of 200′ plants)

RED POTATOES

WALLA WALLA ONIONS  Sweet ones should be used soon.

CUCUMBERS

SQUASH either 1 zucchini or yellow squash.

BASIL

IN TWO WEEKS:  more peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots and garlic.

FARM REPORT:
With half of the harvest behind us and half left to go, 2017 is the running for the best season yet.  Add to it this beautiful mid-70s temperatures and you’ve got the frosting on the cake.  It is a good time to be a farmer, for sure!  The favorite vantage point to capture the beauty of the season is in front of the peppers with the sunflowers towering overhead.

While we tend the home field of crops, the far field continues to grow chickens and cover crops.  We moved both hen houses to new spots in the field this week.  When we move them it is a good chance to count as each chicken comes out of the coop.  We had been worried that we had lost some to predators, but nope we still have about 100 between the two flocks.