Planting Vegetables, A Family Affair

Week before last was a little cooler  around here and I found the folks at Walker Farms in Grays Chapel, North Carolina out in the field planting vegetables. Bill Walker and his wife Barbara and sons Mark, Matthew, and Michael, along with daughter-in-law Heather grow vegetables of all kinds for retail and wholesale sale at the state’s farmers’ markets. Most of the family was out in the field the day I stopped by.

(Photographs copyright 2011 by Dan Routh)

Combining Wheat

The bearded wheat I showed on this blog a few days ago ripened and I found Earl York, Jr. and his son Rodney hard at work combining it. The Yorks run a fertilizer and seed business as well as producing corn, soybeans and small grains. This year they have several hundred acres in wheat, and so far the harvest looks pretty good. Thank goodness for air conditioned combines, because when I stopped by where they were working, the mercury was near 100 degrees. Although, with all farm equipment, you have to get out of the cab and work on things once in a while.
(Photographs copyright 2011 by Dan Routh)