I don’t have a roto-tiller so I asked a guy down the street if he’d mind tilling my little garden. He was happy to oblige, as long as he could get some corn at the end of the season. It sounded like a good deal. What do you think ?

BTW: this is about a third [...]

For the record, this is what 45 acres of tilled land looks like …

If you look really close, the little white dot (middle left) is Zen <grin>.

All things in life are relative. Take for example this picture of weeds - yes, weeds. These are all things that were growing in the soybean field and as such, the farmer considers them “weeds”. 
While they are not the most attractive subject matter for a photographer, these “weeds” do make for a good working exercise. [...]

I would not profess the following is a childhood dream job. And in full disclosure, I do not actually remember what my childhood dream job was.
Many years ago, I went off to learn to fly airplanes. My preference soon turned to old planes and then to biplanes, so the 7:30am overhead aerial assault this [...]

Prolog: This weekend was spectacular on the shore. the weather on Sunday was warmer than expected and it the fall foliage is still quite present. It made "scenic" travel enjoyable rather than slow and tedious. At one point I was traveling down one of the postcard roads with the trees lining both sides and a [...]

I have been traveling a bit so I had my fingers crossed I’d be around when the combine harvester arrived. That day was today. David Mason, a local multi-generation farmer here on the shore leases the 75+ acres in front of where I live. This year he planted corn at the start of the [...]

BTW: I added a night shot to the previous “harvest” post.

Turns out, Zen can’t read. I told her not to operate heavy machenery !  Thie picture is of a Chinese 20hp tractor. I’ve been reading about these tractors (one of those necessary farm things). There is a growing community of Chinese Tractor Owners and this brand is a common variety. They even have [...]

April marks the big push in the agricultural industry. In the North East, most nurseries are planting their starter pots and customers are getting their first look in the green houses. Further south, the weather has warmed enough for outdoor planting.
For those commercial farmers doing rotational crops (corn to soybeans to wheat) some of the [...]

Zen and I headed down to the farm to mark the building site and to check out the wheat crop. It took the better part of 2 hours to find the right alignment of the building and stake the corners square and true. This is one of the cases where you don’t have [...]

They came in and sprayed the corn fields today. “Spray” may be a bit misleading. The “Boom Sprayer” they used drip lines (visible in the last picture) that hang down in between the rows of corn and deliver the “who knows what” so there is not concern with wind. The machine does not have [...]

This morning, after Zen’s business, breakfast, and start of her first nap … and my checking email, reading blogs, and deciding how to survive the heat … I head a familiar bird. I had not seen it around since last fall. I quickly ran outside to see if indeed it was back. Sure enough it [...]

I was both surprised and disappointed back in April when I saw figs already on the tree. Last year, I was picking ripe figs around October so figs in April would be ripe much sooner than that. Also, the number of figs was very low. I wasn’t sure if fig trees has “off years”. [...]

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I have noticed that I need to use photo “stitching” much more than I did before I moved to farm country. Someone mentioned they don’t see images like my farm shots from “home” - it has to do with the high contrast of the land vs the sky. I think two things are at play. [...]