Dunton Family Farm News

What's Happening Around the Farm as well as a Soapbox for head farmer, Mike Dunton

Quick Update

We have been working really hard this past couple of weeks wrapping up harvest, cleaning up the gardens and fields, and working at building compost piles and getting growing areas put to bed for the winter.  Everything that had to be immediately processed (melons, tomatoes, peppers, etc.) are pretty much done whereas things that could be harvested and stored (beans, peas, squash, etc.) are safely indoors and awaiting processing.  We will get to those tasks on rainy days (which sound like they will begin tomorrow).

Yields on peppers and tomatoes were on average lower for us this season than I like to see.  It was just one of those years.  A few “new” old varieties that I was hoping to introduce to you all this next season probably won’t be available.  But we will have enough seed to grow out larger plantings next summer and if all goes well, offer for the 2014 season.

Not a lot else to report here.  We are ants working at preparing for a long, wet Oregon winter.  But at this moment, the sun is shining, and I just popped into the office to grab the tractor key . . . heading back out to till the gardens and sow some cover crops.

More later.  ~Mike

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