Winter Harvest and Spring Preperations

With short days and frequent cloud cover, most of our crops go dormant from November until March; but not all of them.

We have lots of Perennial Kale.

We have Tree Tomatoes, Lemons, Limes, Grapefruits and Sweet Oranges.  And of course, Spicy Peppers to keep us warm!!

Now is the time to prune all the fruit trees in anticipation of them breaking dormancy.

Our apple trees are making many spurs now, so with a good summer we should have fruit this autumn.

Our figs will be mature enough to produce fruit this year also.

Autumn Equinox

Pepper harvest continues and new ways to store them are experimented with.

Fire roasted turned out very well and tasty.

Tomato canning for the coming winter months.

Lacto fermented peppers are great too.

Squash harvest begins.

Banana harvesting takes place year round, but we always have surplus at this time of year for alcohol and vinegar production.

Our compost bins are filling in the foreground and cooking for spring application in the second bin.

Fig trees, grape, and Robinia pseudoacacia waiting to be planted in freshly cleared forest lands of Zone 3.

Final eggplant harvesting takes place and seeds are saved for next year.

Here is a permaculture garden with figs, taro, tree tomato, peanuts, mulberry, squash and citrus.

The fencing keeps the chickens out and provides a dry place for the fruit to hang until harvest.

June 2015 Projects

We had our first wwoof-er this June.  We had a great time and worked hard together.

We arranged a work exchange on a friends farm to harvest potatoes, as he has a large flat area to cultivate.

The children really enjoyed having a new friend to live with them for a few weeks.

Konswan is bringing supplies from the 'nursery' near our house up the mountain to our fruit orchard site.    Behind her are the blocks for our shed project.

Konswan's precious cargo of comfrey, figs and grapes.  These are clones we made ourselves and can continue to propagate until all of our land is full of edibles.

Our first guinea chicks hatched, along with more chickens.