Butterfly Bait.

Butterfly Bait. This is a type of milk weed that has infested our pasture. I missed getting a picture of the swarm of monarch butterflies that came in the week before I took this. I had gone out to mow, but Susan wouldn't let me mow this patch! Not gonna get a good crop of hay yer after year with farming practices like this, but the butterflies are happy!

Tumbling Composter

My new composter. This thing is great. It turned our vegetable scraps into compost in three weeks! I'm gonna have a rich mix for the raised beds next spring! With food prices climbing, and big stores with their far flung supply chains, and the risks of large suppliers spreading pathogens, and the transport costs, we really enjoy gardening.

Image by suburbandollar via Flickr

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