Before and After

I have been lucky enough to experience all the changes on the farm during the summer and I wanted you to also see how amazing the changes have been.

This is the big garden, it was planted in the beginning of June and everything will be tilled under the first week of October.  The largest garden on the property grew beans, collards, kholrabi, peas, potatoes, summer squash, onions, fennel, broccoli and cauliflower; that is a pretty impressive pile of dirt.

The grapes were so fun to watch mature..."fun" may be exaggerating a bit but it was pretty cool seeing grapes grow in Minnesota.  Check back here for a post about my adventures in wine making.

Tomatoes!  This was a labor of love, from building the trellises, to planting the tomatoes, tying every one of them up and picking them; I had an opportunity to learn so much about them.  I am pretty sure I could grow tomatoes in the arctic or a desert. I will miss having "second breakfast" or "first lunch" in the tomato hoop.  What a treat to be able to eat cherry tomatoes right of the vine.