Hallowe'en - Samhain, the Third Harvest Festival

Hallowe'en or Samhain is the only Keltic seasonal festival still officially celebrated in the Anglo-Saxon world.  Here is the Great Pumpkin with lights at the end of our driveway in rural Mitchell Bay.  During the time of the plague, we attached the treats to the lights with clothes-pegs to maintain social distancing.  Alas, we didn't see any trick or treaters, but it seems that they took nine delicious organic granola bar treats, specially ordered from Horizon Distributors via the Sointula Co-op. 

 

In cold climates, Samhain is the third and last harvest festival, but here in coastal British Columbia we still have a few things left to harvest like raspberries, which could last through November. 

Kale and other brassicas will hopefully be available to harvest all winter long.

The peppers and tomatoes have all been harvested and the plastic has been removed from the little hoop house.  The ground is now covered with seaweed.  There are still a few straggling beets in the foreground.

Almost one hundred cloves of garlic has been rotated into the previous pea bed, where the roots of the peas have been left in the soil to fix nitrogen.  The remainder of the garlic was planted in the previous onion bed.  The garlic will be harvested next summer.

To prevent our newly planted fruit trees from being flooded this winter, we have built some drainage ditches to get the rainwater down the slope out of the orchard.