Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Around the Farm - Late November and December 2011

The Delaware Wreath
  Santa and Mrs. Claus visit Cider Fest
 Local all-natural soaps made by Little Hill Soap Company, Laurel DE
 Cider Fest hayrides
 Smores by the fire
 Abbott's Grille cooking demos at our Holiday Open House
 Getting ready for Christmas 
 Wreath making demos at our Open House
 Live music at Fall Fest
 Harvest Hustle 5K start
Harvest Hustle 5K awards
 Fresh local wreaths
 Old 1935 Ford dressed up for Christmas
 Local Christmas trees
 Store front
 End of Fall 2011
 Fifer Gift Baskets
 Fifer apples
Harvest Hustle 2011

Monday, August 29, 2011

Around the Farm - Late August 2011

First pumpkin picking of the year

CSA box pickup - Matt Tappan

Green beans and tomatoes = summertime

A view from our new corn maze observation deck

Constructing the observation deck

Summer squash

CSA flowers

U-pick peaches

Summer produce on the deck

Summer apples

2011 pumpkin patch


pumpkin blossoms in the sun

Monday, June 20, 2011

Around the Farm - June 2011

Sunrise over the blueberry patch. Pick-your-own now open.

New asparagus beds ferning out for the summer.

Young sweet corn plants being cared for

Young pumpkin plants

We plant our pumpkins in to rye cover crops. This creates a pillow of protection for the pumpkins when they develop.

Irrigating sweet corn.
Sweet corn getting close to harvest. June 22nd will be our first picking.

High tunnel tomatoes

Tomato harvest began June 18th out of the tunnels.

Peach harvest begins June 21


Fifer Blueberries coming on strong

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Spring 2011


Apple Bloom 2011


Wow, Peach Bloom!


Planting asparagus crowns


Asparagus is planted in trenches