Growing Lots of Food

LFLF took some time over the weekend to snap a few pictures of farm fields of local food growing. Most of us have either worked on a backyard garden scale or have seen backyard gardens. Many have container gardens. But have you ever wondered how big some of our local farmers' fields are? Many market farmers are bringing produce to market several days a week. We take it for granted that they will have enough of what we want when we arrive at their tables. Other growers are running "on farm" markets and keep a big variety of produce stocked every day.

This picture of sweet corn fields shows the different varieties of sweet corn by the color of the tassles ..... could be white, yellow, or bi-color. Just next to these fields are the fields that have been picked and the corn stalks have already been cut down. Remember we've been eating true local sweetcorn since right around the 4th of July. That's a lot of sweetcorn. Note the tree on the horizon for an idea of the size of just these 3 fields. There are other fields at earlier stages of growth coming to provide us with sweetcorn until just before the frosts in October!
Next we have 2 of 3 large fields of local cabbage .... the 3 of them were at different stages of maturity to provide a continuous supply of cabbage.


More stuff growing ..... this is a large field of what looks like butternut squash from our roadside vantage point.
(Note that it is not cool to jump out and wander into other folks property!)
Enlarge the picture and look in the lower left area for the light green squash shapes. You can see by the trees in the distance that this is quite a large field.

These are just a couple of the fields that our local farmer has going. You haven't seen beets, radishes, carrots, tomatoes, potatoes, summer squash, peppers, cucumbers, onions, lettuce, etc.! We haven't included fruit trees and berry bushes either. We haven't seen herbs, garlic, and pumpkins. Imagine what they would look like ......
We do have sunflowers "blowing in the wind" in our closing picture ..... this too, is just a tiny sample of what a cut flower growers have out there.