We’ve been absent a couple days here with the Daily Farm Photo — so sorry!  We’ll post a couple today to catch up.

The photo above is one of the chicks a few days ago … it’s amazing how fast they grow!  You can see the beginnings of real feathers there on his wing tips.

And here below you can see Ali at the potato harvest … showing you how powerful and invasive yellow nutsedge is!  It grows right through straw mulch, right through plastic mulch — and right through potatoes!  It’s been called “one of the world’s worst weeds” and it’s our biggest weed challenge here at the farm by far.  It has seeds but mainly reproduces through tubers and rhizomes, and it’s incredibly well-adapted to irrigated agricultural land like our farm.  We don’t use any herbicides here, of course, so the best we can do so far is to aggressively till the parts of the farm where we have the worst problems.  That doesn’t kill this weed, but it does weaken it.  Aggressive tillage is not good for our soil in the long-term, but we hope after a few years we’ll be able to get our nutsedge under control.

Pretty sour news, huh?  Okay then …  one more photo of the chicks.  They and we were so grateful for the cooler weather yesterday!

Wishing y’all a lovely lovely Thursday!  Check back here soon for some big farm news.