Category: Farm Photos

Photo Friday at Pearmine Farms

This Friday I am heading just next door to a neighboring farm, Pearmine Farms.  You can read more about them on a blog post by clicking here.

They are a very diversified operation, growing a multitude of crops.  Everything from pumpkins, to broccoli, and wheat to cherries.

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Cherries are looking ripe!202631_511025528971412_1219114235_o

Photo overlooking beans, wheat and grass fields.992828_510974472309851_883170309_n

Fertilizing wheat.992929_510969725643659_1212900021_n

Picking green beans.1006287_510903275650304_160102072_n

Broccoli Flower.1045188_510989188975046_1771548442_n

Sweet Corn right before they turn on the “big gun” (irrigation).1070023_510923625648269_2075720545_n

Harvesting Wheat1167669_527497613990870_182398914_oHot Balloon over a cauliflower field.

Thank you so much Pearmine Farms for letting me “steal” some photos to share!!

Irrigation Crew

Harvest is over…but late nights and early mornings still happen out here.

2013-08-14_19-13-34_156At least I have a good crew out working with me!

2013-08-14_19-12-39_564Here’s to the start of another day at the farm!

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Blight Scouting in Hazelnuts…Photo Friday

This time of year we are able to stay pretty busy working out in the orchards.  We scout for blight, which grows in the tree and can actually kill off parts of the tree, or even the whole tree if you don’t spray it many times during the year, and also prune it out of the canopy.

2013-01-17_13-34-19_782The black scab marks are what we look for, then you have to cut about 6 inches below the site to make sure that what has moved through the tree is also getting cut out.

gvf_orbit_lifts_2010This is the tower that we use to get up high in the trees.  Our established orchard has very tall trees and most of the growth is at the top.  That is also where the a lot of the blight starts, in the newer growth areas.

2013-01-19_08-54-29_508This is the usual crew I have going around to check on the what is being pruned, kind of a full house at times 🙂

Happy Friday!