Snowy Solstice

For the first time in many years, it's a White Solstice on the Cascadia Coast.  It's Candycane Lane and Snowperson Land at the end of our driveway!

 We finally put together a new sign for Lucky Farm 77 that we will be hanging at the end of the driveway.  Blue for summer days, yellow for the sunshine, and the green clover for all the produce we will be growing!

We were sad to discover that many of our onions had not cured properly due to the cool August weather.  We salvaged what we could and chopped up the good pieces and put them in baggies in the freezer.  Next year we will make sure to put them in the solar or electric driers to make sure that that they are properly cured.

Unusually, the garden continues to be covered in snow over the holiday season.

 

We harvested the remaining produce around Solstice since it is forecast to drop to -15C around boxing day.   Here are the carrots poking out of the snow.

We cut off the ends of the kale and froze bundles in the freezer in baggies.

 

 

We dug out the remaining potatoes from the muddy soil.  They will be cured with the dirt left on in Linda's studio and then stored in paper shopping bags in the cool pantry.

 

 

We had to order more mason bees to pollinate the orchard, as our old bees refused to move with us to the North Island.

 

We will place the three dozen mason bees into the mason bee house at the edge of the orchard.  Hopefully they will propagate to over 100 like we had before.