Our friends Ian and Pam made us aware of this show on Amazon Prime. Jeremy Clarkson was the star of a famous BBC show called Top Gear (there was a US knock-off of it). It was three guys who drove various autos across all kinds of interesting geography. He was fired at the height of the show's popularity for abusing his production crew. Anyway, he retreated to his 1000 acre Cotswolds farm and tried to run it himself - with a tv crew following his every move. It is hilarious! I've seen recently that Amazon has authorized another season and they are filming it now. The link below will take you to the eight or so episodes from season one - each show about 45 minutes. As a rookie and inept farmer, I highly recommend it for the kind of mistakes that we make.
Amazon Prime - Clarkson's Farm
Watching it reminded me of another documentary that I had seen on an airplane some time ago. It was about a couple who gave up city life in California and bet it all on starting an organic farm. It has it's chuckles but not the same kind of hilarity as Clarkson's farm. It is a really well done story - sort of a more serious Green Acres. Here's the link to the trailer - I'm sure that you can find it online somewhere.
The Biggest Little Farm Trailer
And this link is to the website for the farm which is still an ongoing business.
Apricot Lane Farms
Anyway, so much for media reviews. On our farm, we are facing the usual difficulties.
These are the pumpkins that I picked just last week - most are already rotten.
The pumpkin patch was overtaken with grasses this year - in addition to the usual pigweeds.
Down inside those grasses there are pumpkins rotting away. I think that the major culprit is squash bugs boring into the vines.
There are some survivors though.
It's hard to find them among the grasses.
One of the more successful rows is the small white pumpkins.
And there are some that are still green.
Lots of gourds - they seem to hold up well.
And several types of squash.
I did harvest some pumpkins this week. We'll see next week if they are all rotten.
This is a volunteer plant near the propane tank and it seems happy.
I had a white oak tree die this year and it looks like another one is going behind it. Wonder if there is some sort of bug or fungus.
I finally got around to sawing up the trunk.
Every year I seem to find a dead hummingbird in the barn.
It's always in proximity to this emergency release for the roll up door. Do you think that they mistake that orange handle for a bloom?
Lots of late season blooms going on. The seek app says that these are tickseed beggar-ticks.
This pear tree is dropping a lot of fruit which attracts the deer.
My oats and brassica field looks decent.
There are a lot of weeds in it and that seems to be what the deer are eating right now.
This is the beets and greens field - also pretty weedy. The radish greens are popular here.
Joan out for a spin with me this weekend. We had planned a family get together but our nephew Grant has some symptoms. We're hoping that he feels ok.
And some of the trailcams. A fox in daylight.
Always coyotes.
Lots of turkeys.
The fawns are growing up.
A doe confab for some reason.
Most bucks have lost their velvet.
A few haven't.
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