A blessed feast of St. Fiacre!

8/30/2015

Please read about our farm's patron, St. Fiacre HERE. Enjoy some garden bounty today in his honor and ask him to watch over your garden and abundance! Today we also share our August happenings around the farm in hopes we can establish at least a monthly farm update as we did last year. The farm store should also re-open soon with a few new items and updates. Thank you for your patience as our family has been recovering from illnesses and business of life!

In the Hoop house…
BEGINNING of August

With a 6 week illness and many weeks recover in June and July we were not able to prune the tomatoes we started or get our beans in. While most are harvesting beans we just planted ours in hopes that this really warm weather and our hoop house would bring us a fall abundance.

After just two weeks of planting our little beans are doing well!

Beans in their two leaf stage.

Baby kale coming on up!

Our busy out of control tomatoes, most of the beef steak and roma tomatoes had blight and haven't done much but become goat treats.

In the Hoop house…
end of August

Our hoop house the end of August, still busy with tomatoes! We planted about 33 tomato plants intending to move them outside… but when the gardner is out sick… the tomato plants get bushy!

After four weeks our bean plants are doing super well! (Thank you St. Fiacre for answered prayers!) One of those bean runners is already half way up its string and leafing! Come October we will probably be canning many jars of beans!

Come back Kale…. we planted this Kale last September when we first put our hoop house in and I"ve been cutting it down to almost nothing and it keeps coming back.

Cucumbers we planted the same time as our beans, looking for a trellis to climb… a project on my list...

Tomatillo globe, so pretty! Looks like the bugs have attacked the plants...

Over abundant tomatillo plants, this is only TWO plants. If all those blossoms fruit we will have plenty of salsa verde.

Our hopp'n hop plant! About time to harvest those.

Harvest time!

While our roma tomatoes are few and far between (and growing in odd shapes) and our steak tomatoes almost non existent we have an ABUNDANCE of cherry/plum tomatoes. Not enough for sauce but enough for fresh eating and dehydrating.

Our garden is not doing too much but we have been blessed with produce from friends and family. These lovely plums came from my in-laws. Great for fresh eating… maybe if there is more some jam.

Lemon Cucumbers from my husbands work (they are blessed with a decent garden there). These were not overly popular and were stacking up so we took our lemons and made….

Lemon Cucumber Pickles! This before processing, are they not beautiful! They will be a treat come November.

In the APOTHECARY...

All natural vanilla scented lip balm, a special order for my sister-in-laws wedding favors. There were some extra too that in the near future will be sporting a St. Fiacre's label and for sale in our Etsy shop!