And the corn goes in!!

    

Planning for it has been an annual dance for years. This is our Kaanga Maa patch -our staple corn which we have had for over 10 years now. Porridge, tortilla, pozole....

Our cover crop has been scythed (roots left in the ground), any buttercup removed, mulched, a legume rich cover crop sown, and our soaked corn planted.

Was super impressed with the cover crop. It has been flowering since April and the amount of biomass was amazing. It was mostly eye level and so diverse. Look at the size of our lupin trunks - and the root nodules where impressive too. Oh and I forgot the amount of worms and the fantail that worked with us all morning.

Thanks to our amazing WOOFERS we got this job done in a morning!!

 

      

Planting tomatoes

Can you see me!! I am standing up. This is before I moved all of the bumblebees and edible broad beans and picked a salad (spinach, kale, edible flowers, lettuce, sorrel, carrots..) I used a mower to mulch everything and after a little weeding planted my tomatoes into deep mulch.

My cover crops are getting wilder and it is getting harder to mulch them as they are so full of life and food!!

 

Mushroom Farmers!!!

I thought I had killed off my mushroom bed by letting it dry out too much. Thanks to a visit from an amazing mushroom friend and a top up with mulch and this week we have king stropharia on the menu.

Down by the riverside

So good to wake up here. Warmest Lions hut trip ever for this time of the year. Slept under a fly down by the river.