You can join me on the walk with the photos here.
Grape vines are bereft of grapes this year as they blanket the old corn crib |
Possibly up to 200 bushels per acre for corn this year with almost ideal growing conditions. Of course the price is about 1/2 of 3 years ago. |
A row of Siberian crap apples that I ordered from Gurneys as windbreak trees and planted the summer of 1970 highlighted with some woodbine red climbing vines |
I kept a narrow path through the corn field from yard to pond. The deer use this to come to eat apples and then return to sleep and get a drink |
The pond is full and the deep grass, goldenrod, milkweeds, etc., make a wildlife oasis in the midst of corn fields. |
Fall asters of varying shades of purple are in full bloom as is the goldenrod |
Arrowhead plants, a favorite of ducks, line the shores. Very few Vees of geese or flocks of ducks so far this fall. Probably too mild to spur them to think about going south. |
The ravine that drains Bass Lake snakes through the farm providing a wildlife corridor that extends all the way to the St Croix River following Bass Lake Creek to Wolf Creek. |
The corn ears are 5 feet off the ground or more. The stalks are 8 foot. Probably the best corn ever to grow on the farm since it was wrested out of woods in the 1860s-1880s. |
The big cattail swamp that straddles Evergreen Avenue. No openings in it--just solid growth including short willow brush. |
Looking mostly east over Evergreen Avenue on the hillside I mowed off to plant a pumpkin and squash garden next year. |