Category Archives: Rattle’s Garden
May
At this point it is no surprise that Monster Milan is an excellent blueberry picker. With plenty of picking practice in the strawberries, it was only a matter of explaining that we were now looking for blue, not green or purple or red. Then the Monster went to work. Briefly distracted… but only for a […]
May
at the Hillcrest Farmers Market.
May
People always ask us why we have goats. Do we milk them? Are they for meat? Do we raise babies. No, no, no. For a long time we had a few goats for no reason. Then they became useful in their love of pigweed. Now, they are toddler entertainment that lasts a long time. We found out […]
May
Sometimes something is too pretty to touch. This sunflower is worth so much more to me in the field than it would be at market. Getting ready for market though means a lot of pretty things need to leave my fields so I took a few pictures this morning.
May
They’ve arrived. We’ve seen a few here and there while picking green beans this week but today was the first time I saw a horde. They were doing a number on the remaining napa cabbages in the row next to where I was picking green beans. These bugs absolutely disgust me. Luckily III feels the […]
May
Monster Milan’s chicks moved back to the big coop over a month ago but soon learned they don’t have to stay there. It didn’t take long for the little peepers to figure out they were small enough to fit through the fence and come up into the yard to hang out. One little dudette in […]
May
My migrant workers are leaving tomorrow. Also known as Monster Milan’s grandparents, they are headed north tomorrow. That’s always a sad day for us. They came down this trip to help us get ready for the potluck for the market customers and babysit so that we could get closer to getting caught up. We almost […]
Last week was a good week to be my friend if you love broccoli. My week revolved around harvesting broccoli and moving it off the farm! The first three 5-gallon buckets though went in my freezer. This is how I spent last Sunday afternoon! Broccoli for the winter.
May
There was a photographer from the Arkansas Democrat Gazette at the farmers market in Hillcrest on Saturday. He stalked our booth for a while and then told us we were going to get our picture in Sunday’s newspaper. Yay! It’s always nice to have a booth full of flowers. My father-in-law was the first to […]