View of the Quarter Acre Farm

People have asked just what the farm looks like – they see it in dribs and drabs, and can't tell if it is huge, teensy, sprawling, congested…so here's a look. I climbed a ladder and took a few pictures trying to get most of the place in viewing range.  To the left is the critter area with pens and ramps and yards for the geese, the duck and the rabbits.  An eggplant bed is in the foreground right, herbs and artichokes foreground left- and beyond…beets, garlic, tomatoes, strawberries, cukes, brocc, blackberries fruit trees, strawberries and fish pond.  What you can't see is the giant fava bed, the potato beds, winter squash and melon beds, and most of the fruit trees including the mammoth olive tree.

The front is planted with peas, favas, celery, tomatoes, summer squash, lettuce, spinach, beans (green and several varieties dried) more eggplant and melons, cherry and two kinds of apple trees, grape vines, and more artichokes.  Lots of flowers, of course.  Good for the eye, good for the garden (heeeeeere, beneficial insects)!

In another month all the new summer plants will be growing riotously, and I'll try to take a picture of that as the farm transforms once again – (all of those california poppies will be spent and gone by then as well, but aren't they gorgeous now?)