Daniel Woodham and the folks at Goat Lady CSA were out digging potatoes on a very hot Saturday morning Saturday in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.
(Photographs copyright 2012 by Dan Routh)
Potato Harvest
Category: Farm
Queen Anne’s Lace
It’s a sign of hot summer days in Grays Chapel, North Carolina. The Queen Anne’s Lace is opening in the grass field across from my house.
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Wooden Silo in B&W
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Wooden silo near Julian, North Carolina.
Another Visitor
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We had a visitor in our hen house the other day. He must have told his relatives. My wife Dedra found this fella (a little bigger than his cohort) searching for eggs this afternoon. He was relocated but left unharmed.
A Fair Trade
My wife Dedra was checking the henhouse for eggs this afternoon and found a visitor. He already had a couple of eggs in his belly, but we don’t really mind too much. She put him down in the barn to catch mice after he finishes his digestion. Seems like a fair trade, a couple of eggs now and then for some rodent control. He’s a black rat snake, a constrictor, non poisonous, and it looks like he just shed. There’s a bit of dry skin still attached near his eye.
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Beeson’s Dairy
Dairyman and neighbor Michael Beeson chops wheat silage from windrows recently near New Salem, North Carolina.
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Resting Between Rounds
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A farmer takes a short break between rounds while plowing with his team of horses in Caldwell County, North Carolina.
Grain Drill
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An old grain drill sits in a field near my home in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.
Hay 2012
A warm dry afternoon last week found neighbor Donald Lineberry rolling hay near my home in Grays chapel, North Carolina.
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Behind the Plow, 2012
Every year in the late spring a small group of folks gets together on some bottom land along the Yadkin River in Caldwell County, North Carolina, and continue to carry on an old traditional farming practice, plowing ground with horses and mules. This was the third year I’ve attended. There were a dozen or more teams this year and a group of onlookere were treated to a glimpse of the past. Even my wife got into the act. She was given an opportunity to hold the lines on a pair of large draft horses and made a round on a riding plow.Â
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