A visit with Farmer Roger

• Morning fog is gone. A beautiful sunny day for the melancholy task of closing up the farm for winter. #
• Juan is now mowing down the corn maze. He & Luis pulled all the signs out of the maze this morning. #
• Lots of ideas for next year floating around. Now is the time to capture them. In the next few weeks we'll be laying out plans for next year. #
• Evert is taking down signs & putting up "closed for the season" signs. #
• Bit of a scare when one goat choked on pelleted hay. Very dramatic. She's ok now and eating again. #
• High sheets of clouds, lots of blue sky, slight breeze. Good working day. #
• Juan just finished mowing down the corn maze. Now attaching the spading machine to the tractor. #
• Luis is dismantling the school-tour hog-panel "piggy maze." Juan is now spading the corn maze. Evert is roaming the farm taking down signs. #
• Peggy is in the farmstand organizing for next year & storing stuff away. Rob is on the Ford 8N, disking fields to be seeded with cover crop. #
• Add one more to a string of beautiful days. #
• The crew is spreading winter rye seed as cover crop today: Finished the annual flower & herb gardens and large & small pumpkin fields. #
• Veg crew is prepping the hoophouses today. Stewart is still working on organizing signs. #
• Thin overcast. Still warming up today. Pushing to get outside work done before tomorrow's predicted showers. #
• All the cover crop winter rye grain is spread now & will be tilled in by the end of the day. After lunch we'll take down the farmstand tent. #
• The farmstand tent is down now, draped in the big hoophouse to dry out before folding up for the winter. #
• Trying to put stuff away for the winter in a way that will make sense next spring. #
• Policy wonks & planners, King County is asking for feedback on its strategic plan: http://bit.ly/stratego #
• Overcast & breeze. Forecast says rain is coming. #
• Veg crew preparing starts greenhouses for next year. Juan & Luis taking down the stawbale pyramids & haluling them to compost. #
• Still not used to early dark. Fed the critters & picked poo by twilight. #
• A bit of blue in the sky right now, but more thunderstorms forecast. 0.84 inches of rain yesterday and so far this morning. #
• Field crew is still working on preparing for winter and staging for next spring. #
• Just dropped off a half ton of winter squash & pie pumpkins at Trellis for Chef Brain Scheehser. #
• The tilled–in corn maze field is blanketed with hundreds of Canada geese. Plus a smattering of Mallards and assorted crows & blackbirds. #
• It's a cold rain. #
• Over an inch of rain yesterday, 0.2 inch already today. Even more Canada geese around the farm today. #
• Too much time spent in the office working on reports today. QuickBooks is not talking with Excel, or maybe Excel is not listening. #

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