The Quadra Farm : October 2014

Only a few days ago I looked around the garden and realized for the first time since spring I’m not completely overwhelmed. The shorter days are taking care of that and I’m glad for the dark evenings. We are slowly moving back inside our house.This past summer was full of never ending sunny days and warm weather. The garden just explored with life and keeping up with transplanting, harvesting and processing harvesting was a joyful day to day challenge. I have to admit I was really happy to discover the last five pounds of green tomatoes where rotten.This summer our cow, Fern, joined our farm with great celebration, it is very difficult to even try to have an biodynamic farm or eat a Weston Price diet without a cow. Mature coming in for the compost pile is like solid gold around here. And our family is waiting for spring for that arrival of baby calf and milk. We also have some hair sheep so whoever has calves or lambs first will be the first to be milked.
The following images are in no order of summer, just a collection of images that really reminded me of these past few months.