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Melody loading up our truckito with a days harvest. Photo by Mark Yaggie |
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This photo was taken by a visitor and friend of ours, Mark Yaggie. Our carrots this year amazed us all with their flavor and beauty! |
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I guess you could say this is our skeleton crew for 2009. We are definitely loving life out here at Montesino. Photo by Mark Yaggie |
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This is one of Scott's big projects. We have a tower this tank will be mounted on and on top of it will be a windmill. All of this will be done so that we can harness wind energy (we have a lot here) and return to the grid what we use. |
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Onions ready to go in CSA baskets.
Photo by Mark Yaggie |
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Our favorite mode of transportation around in the farm. Photo by Mark Yaggie |
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This is one of our amazing CSA baskets, overflowing with yummy goodness! |
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Lovely raddichio. The red veins in raddichio are so amazing. |
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These radishes were taking a bath before getting pickled. We had quite an unreal bounty of radishes this year which led to our rainy day pickling project. |
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Does this mean our veggies are the pot'o'gold? |
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This is our future house being delivered through the flower garden. It was the only way, but it sure was odd seeing half a house roll through our field. |
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Ben here is harvesting a duck. Just a regular ol' afternoon at the farm. |
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Our friend Beno playing in the Blanco. |
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Our first success with napa cabbage! They are silent slow growers, just when you think all is lost, you cut one and it is 5 lbs! |
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We haven't seen many monarchs this year, but the swallowtails have been plentiful. |
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Melody took the side of precaution and wore an extra thick suit to check out our beehives. She gets stung enough cutting flowers. Those bees love their flowers ! |
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This is the table spread for our first Dai Due dinner with Chef Jesse Griffiths and his team of amazing people. We had planned for an evening outdoors but the May rain brought us indoors and we were all delighted! |
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Jesse brings EVERYTHING when he sets up, including this awesome grill. |
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These pleased diners are Marisa, a Montesino intern, and Pam Burk, our field coordinator's mother. |
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Our barn was filled and so were our tummies! Everyone was very pleased with the evening. |
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The old entry to Montesino Ranch. |
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A bountiful tomato harvest! |
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Horsemint with our barn in the background. |
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Montesino's fresh organic flowers at Whole Foods Market in Austin. |
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We get alot of rainbows over Montesino. |
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That's alot of Hatch Chilis! |
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Brenda washing leeks and onions for the Farmer's Market. |
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Pleased and proud of the fabulous Zinnia harvest! |
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Our Zinnias are spectacular! |
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One of our student volunteers cleaning leeks. |
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A happy volunteer helps with the onion crop. |
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We have added to our duck flock for increased egg production...but these guys also earn their keep by being great organic grasshopper controllers. |
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We are implementing new compost techniques as advised by soil biologist, Dr. Elaine Ingham. |
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Thank goodness for our backhoe. It made adding the layers much easier. |
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Each layer of the compost pile still had to be spread out by hand. |
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And each layer got watered. |
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Organic rabbit control...Tigre. |
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Our first harvest of Brussel Sprouts - 1-22-2009 - WOOHOO!! |
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The onions are well on their way with Vetch in between the rows as a cover crop. |
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