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Potato fruit

3 Apr 201627 Aug 2008 by Mike (tfb)
Potato fruit on Chieftain variety

Here’s something I haven’t seen before in my, uh, six years of growing potatoes: green, tomato-like, walnut-sized potato fruit. Bob hadn’t seen ’em either, in 40 plus years of farming. I hit the web for education.

These are genuine fruit, … Read the rest

Categories Farm lab (research!), Seed starting, Veggies Tags breeding, flowering, potato, seed, Summer 155 Comments

New cows!

12 Jan 200921 Jan 2008 by Mike (tfb)

There was action in the barn in the wee hours today. A couple of the cows gave birth. Here’s the first new one, around five minutes after his 4 am delivery into the cold barn.

This is the second time … Read the rest

Categories Animals Tags barn, breeding, cows, meat, Winter 13 Comments

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