A Plum, Some Pears, and 2,000 Pounds of Garlic
Tortuga Thursday
In 2012, on the plains of Northern Arizona, two families joined forces and began the trials and tribulations of building a small family farm with nothing in the bank but love
One lone plumTortuga Thursday snuck up on me this week. Last week, I missed it altogether. Just a little busy! I've got multiple writing projects going and farmer Lance has been off the farm which means I fill in as best I can. The orchard surprised me this week. We actually have some fruit this year. All but one of the apple trees has fruit...some only a couple but that's something. The pear tree is producing. And the big story is the plum tree with ONE
Pearsplum. LOL But it's a pretty thing.
Garlic before cleaningWe've also started the process of trimming, cleaning and boxing the garlic for market. Right now we have two wholesalers looking at our offerings. Hopefully, in about ten days we will be 2,000 pounds lighter of garlic.
Cleaned and boxed
Apples
Weeding the zucchini
One lone plumTortuga Thursday snuck up on me this week. Last week, I missed it altogether. Just a little busy! I've got multiple writing projects going and farmer Lance has been off the farm which means I fill in as best I can. The orchard surprised me this week. We actually have some fruit this year. All but one of the apple trees has fruit...some only a couple but that's something. The pear tree is producing. And the big story is the plum tree with ONE 
Pearsplum. LOL But it's a pretty thing.
Garlic before cleaningWe've also started the process of trimming, cleaning and boxing the garlic for market. Right now we have two wholesalers looking at our offerings. Hopefully, in about ten days we will be 2,000 pounds lighter of garlic. 
Cleaned and boxed
Apples
Weeding the zucchini 
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