Artichoke Lover
Free Ranging
More useful than what we’ve found! Old tires, beer bottles, TVs, toilets.....We purchased it in Feb 2020, right before Covid hit. The previous homeowner had passed away. We actually "adopted" his chickens & goats as part of the sale since his heirs had no earthly idea what to do with them. Because he had been elderly & sick for a while, the place was a bit overgrown. We've cleaned up most of the property but left some scrub brush around a giant oak that sits right in the center of our back pasture. We left the brush so the chickens could hide in them and the goats like to eat them. Seemed innocent enough. I had no idea that there was a cattle panel laying on the ground over there. And it has been there long enough that the grass and scrub brush has grown over & into it....which helped obscure it.
Believe me, we are finding all kinds of stuff in random places around this place. In the house, in the barn, in the attic. They left us all kinds of wood, roof panels, tile, cattle equipment, rope, shelves. Basically stuff that has been incredibly useful around the farm.
Picked and ate the first ear of corn today! It was small but it tasted great. The first pumpkin is starting to color up and the sunflowers are about to go crazy, we planted thousands and they are just about to start blooming. The giant ones that I have a few rows of in the garden are around 8-9ft. Our record from a few years back was 16ft though! I also included a picture of yesterday’s harvest. The pinto beans are starting to produce as well.
I’m also sorry to say that I’m about to let the garden fend for itself I’ll be insanely busy with school come August and I just won’t have the time or energy to keep up with it beyond picking.