Harvest – Page 13 – NuttyGrass

Combining Cabbage Seed

This year we grew our first crop of cabbage for seed. It is always fun to add a new crop to the farm, although learning curves can be steep, we had a lot of help to get the crop to harvest. But then came harvest, and using a brand of combine that no one had used before, we hit the ground running and patiently tweaked on our yellow gal for about 3 hours to get her all set right. There was lots of climbing inside the combine to double check what was going on.

I got to drive the harvester, my pregnant belly still fits so far! And I got a few helpful riders to keep me company.

We dumped it into our truck to took it down the road to Triangle Farms. It was then unloaded into boxes and taken to be stored until it is cleaned.

It’s really pretty seed! So even though it took awhile to get it all set right, it was a fun process of trial and error to get the crop to look like what we wanted!

And now the yellow combine heads back to join the John Deere in ryegrass harvest. Back together again!
Happy Friday!

Green Beans!

I would start by saying that green beans are crop number (blank) on our farm, but it’s harvest and to tell you the truth I don’t even know what day it is let alone where green beans fall amongst the other either crops we are growing this year. It’s obvious that I’m tired and a little worn out already even though it’s only mid-July. Harvest came early, but that doesn’t really matter, it’s a go go go time of year for all farmers here in Oregon. You can tell just how tired because it turns out it’s Tuesday and not Monday (the usual day I post). Oh well, for your viewing pleasure here is some green bean progress for you all.

The first planting is looking great! The row are full of small little baby beans filling more and more by the day! The second planting is coming right along as well, no blooms or beans on the plants yet, but those are sure to come soon.

The photo above is our first planting, photo below is the second.

So I hope everyone has a great Monday, or Tuesday, or whatever the heck day it is. To us farmers it really doesn’t matter, the sun is shining so we are working, hope my blog readers can forgive me! I’m not quite as tired as a few years ago. I remember I walked out of my house to go to work after only a few hours of sleep, looked down and realized not only did I forget to put on shoes, I had two different socks on. Oh the life of harvest! Well I guess it’s time to get back out into the field folks. Until next time…