It is already September 1st! Our CSA working shares are always a big help when they come to lend us a hand with the harvesting and washing of produce for our pick ups. Today they suggested we take some photos of the pick-up room with the produce ready to go before everyone arrived to “pick-up” the days offerings.

The fall harvest time is upon us. This week we dug all the remaining potatoes. The horses actually dug the potatoes and we picked them up and bagged them. It was a full day, but very satisfying.  Anna McFaul, a past apprentices, was here to help and enjoyed seeing our potato digger at work. When she was here we were still using a walk behind potato plough.

We have been having a bit of a challenge milking Mabel this week and have decided to take Mac away from her to see if that helps. We had hoped that we could leave him with her and just milk off enough each morning for house milk, but Mabel decide this week that she’d rather keep all the milk for Mac. We’ll see how it goes from here…

Ellen and Della were home for a visit last week and it was lovely to have a  bit of time with them both. Della is a very responsive two month old and we look forward to seeing her continue to develop her own personality.