Now it is summer!
Dinner on the longest day, all from right outside the door except the tomatoes (from a fellow farmer, ours aren’t quite ready yet) and the dressing ingredients:
summer solstice salad
Cherokee red and romaine lettuces, borage and nasturtium blossoms, and a bit of yellow tomato made this hands-down the most colorful salad I have ever eaten. I mixed up a simple honey yogurt dressing to balance the spicy nasturtiums and the slight bitterness of the lettuce. Vibrant!
We are in a hot-and-dry spell here, making hay and waiting for rain.
walking east toward the hay barn
stacking up for winter
Different patches of corn indicate planting dates by size. The popcorn patch went in last:
popcorn patch in front of the house
The sweet corn in the veggie patch is a bit older:
bicolor sweet corn in the veggie patch
The field corn, planted first, stretches skyward from the veggie patch to the Coosawattee River, obstructing the long views afforded by soybeans in the same fields last year. I wondered whether it may be literally as high as an elephant’s eye, but had no elephants on hand to test that hypothesis.
field corn, this much of it over my head, about two feet
hot, dry sky
around five months old
Corn isn’t the only thing growing in these fields– the calves are getting big, and most of the mamas are bred again. We have been waiting anxiously for the veggie patch to dry out before losing more tomato and pepper plants; now we wait for rain and enjoy the longest day.
