The field is still full and green, but there are many changes apparent. The cucumbers and beans have finished for the season. Beds where spring cabbage, lettuce and peas, as well as garlic and early potatoes were grown are now filled with a buckwheat cover crop.
The first fall frost is looming around the corner and that will bring more changes. The frost will bring a sweetness to root vegetables and kale, and help the remaining dry beans fully dry down.
Brussel sprouts are filling out, and will sweeten with frost.
The pack shed drying/curing area is full to the brim. There are red and yellow onions, and mid-season potatoes curing. Garlic, shallots, herbs and early season potatoes are cured and stored.
The winter squash is start to mature. September 10th we had our first harvest of acorn squash.
Our flint corn harvest has begun. (It may take a while, because with each ear we pick we stop and say, "Oooo, ahhh....look at this one!"
The flint corn is grown for animal feed, and may also be used for hominy and corn meal.
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