© Oakhill Organics
2007
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Oakhill Organics: On the new land | ||||||
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In 2007, we moved our life and farm to our new land. Between building a small house & starting the farm, it was a busy year. (For more stories & photos, visit our farm blog.) | ||||||
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Casey standing on our empty homesite in late 2006 ... many changes coming soon! | ||||||
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Just after the first of the year, we began building our little house. | ||||||
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Our house's finished exterior in late January. | ||||||
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Rebuilding our make-shift hot house on the new land in February so that we could begin sowing for our 2007 season. | ||||||
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Katie sowing the first seeds of the season in our shed. | ||||||
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Onion starts in the hot house (and a surprise daffodil under the benches!). | ||||||
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Casey 'row-covering' our first direct sown beds in the field in March 2007. | ||||||
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We finally moved into our little house in April! | ||||||
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We drilled a well in May ... it was artesian (under pressure)! | ||||||
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Early lettuce plantings in the field. | ||||||
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View of the hot house and fields from our living room. | ||||||
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Casey harvesting arugula in June for the CSA. | ||||||
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Washing radishes ... | ||||||
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At market! | ||||||
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In June, we added some animal friends to the farm: 23 chicks ... | ||||||
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... and two sweet kittens, named Mokum and Nelson after carrot varieties. | ||||||
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Mid-summer view of the fields. | ||||||
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The cool summer made for superb carrots. Here is one of our enormous carrot harvests for the CSA. | ||||||
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Our onions drying under the walnut tree in August. | ||||||
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Mokum guarding our newly harvested buttercup squash in September. | ||||||
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Casey in our fall broccoli planting. | ||||||
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The chicks all grown up and grazing in our green fall oats. | ||||||
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Katie, Casey & Mokum in the fields. What a year! | ||||||
| More photo galleries: Starting a farm, just plain pretty & sample CSA shares. | |||||||