Farm update

Well, the "Marm" has kept me really busy this Summer.  After some controversy with the neighbor over the well, I started prepping the 12 acre field and got it planted over the 24th of July weekend.










Jake, Dustin, and I got the field as ready as possible.  It has been unfarmed for many years and it didn't completely yield to our efforts.  Jake and Aaron Moeller got the pipe laid out and hooked up.


 

Jake

Jake and Aaron
 

  

Dustin

 

And we turned on the water!





There are car--sized holes and fissures even after all the prepping.




Grampa Kartchner lent expertise

....and cheap labor
 




Everyone worked hard and got really tired.  Payson and Toby



Dustin Meagan Mikayla and Maylee
 

Jake and Maren

Mikayla

We got a good seed response as the sun shone.....




And the rain came down supplementing irrigation.







It grew....




and it grew...




and it grew




and it grew some more.



Interestingly, the deer seem to prefer the neighbor's weeds.