May 27, 2006--Kaylana and Celeste cruising the garden in their hot rod. Don't eat watermelon and drive . . .

May 27, 2006: Ellie and Celeste playing on the hay bales.

May 27, 2006: Vera holding catapillers she found on the nature walk.

May 27, 2006: Max holding his new pet catapiller.

3 July 2006--picking peas with a little help from some extended family.

We got a couple chickens to see how it goes. Maybe later we'll get more and offer eggs in the CSA.

We had real trouble with insect pests on all our cucurbit crops this year (squash, melons, cucumbers). This is a picture of one of the 'bad guys'--squash bugs--hatching from some eggs we collected.

Lucky for us, we had some 'good guys' too. These are some ladybug larvae hatching on our apple tree that had a bit of an aphid infestation.

April 2006--We've just put in our first few plantings for our very first season. Hip hip hooray!

Early September 2006--This is how the garden looks at the end of the season.