A late August snapshot of our season in the market garden, slow beginnings this year but coming on well now.
grains
Fanning Mill
Cleaned this year's rye harvest with the ol' Cockshutt No2 fanning mill, ready for the stone mill. Moved the 'granary' shipping container to its permanent home behind the tractor shed, now to build a roof over it before the snow falls...
harvest time
It's been a busy month with harvesting and the last of the markets. Now the garden is tilled, the root cellar is full, squash is curing, rye is ready for milling and the straw is in the barn.
Small-scale grains
It was a pleasure to take part in the small-scale grain growing talk in Smithers the other night; it's always lots of fun to meet so many people interested in grains and have a show-and-tell of heirloom wheats. Thanks willing worker Fabrizio for the photos of the threshing and winnowing demonstrations.
