Full Moon, Flowers, & Fire

Farming is an endeavor of ever shifting priorities. 
Every season has it's challenges, tasks, and best practices.
In the west, I'm pretty sure most everyone's least favorite season (not only farmers) is fire season.
Some positives on a farm are ever-present irrigation, less fun is keeping animals inside or locked up, smoke while working outside, and on other thing that makes it hard to concentrate on all the inside computer work that I always move down the priority list during summer.

This week is no exception. 
With a fire that started two days ago just 1 mile from the farm, I won't have my full booth at the farmers markets this week but do look for my fresh bouquets sitting in their usual stands with Seanna at Two Worlds Trading Co. 
While it is very unlikely that the fire will move in my direction (because of topography, roads, prevailing wind, and efforts of all the firefighters) I still don't like being away for too long since all the hens and kitties can't come with me every time I pop out. 

I plan to return next week with more fresh flowers and microgreens once the fire is not so new. In the meantime, I get a full aircraft show of all the planes and helicopters that are used in firefighting!

This is what happens when you are late with the food delivery!

Mayhem, Chaos, and everyone trying to jump inside the feeder to eat.

Such silly chickens 😂

Usually they are out and about to chase down all the grasshoppers but since I don't wanna chase down them in case of evac they gotta stay inside and be content with their feed and the grasshoppers get a free pass for a few days.

more sleepy bees, so so many sleepy bees

The flowers keep coming and blooming!

It's time to not only be harvesting for fresh and dried, but for seeds!

If you're curious to learn more about seed saving or don't know how to do it and want to learn, I do have a class coming on Sept 17th where you can learn all about seed saving right on the farm in the wonderful outdoor classroom that is nature!

Sign up here or learn more

The bouquets are getting bright and moody, my favorite colors!

This week, you'll find them with Seanna at Two Worlds Trading Co right next to all her wonderful soaps, lotions, and bath things to make you feel good on the inside and outside.

Thanks so much to her for helping me get my fresh farm products to market this week!!!

You know the next day will get interesting when you come home at dusk and see this right across the highway from your road and only 1 mile from the farm

Yesterday was a full day of constant aircraft. They aren't dropping near me but I'm in the perfect spot for them to turn and line up their runs for the slope and fire edge.

So many planes,
so many helicopters!

When I'm used to quiet, the noise is distracting but I'm glad for the activity in this case.

And watching all the low flying planes doing turns, flying in tandem, and making runs kinda feels like I'm in some weird ww2 period movie set 

Future Learning OpportunitiesAre you ready to step into the wilderness?

Late Summer Foraging Class: Dragon's Breath Farm: August 13th
Some plants are already in seed, some are still blooming, and others are gone. Is our harvest thinning or can we still fill our plate? It's also a great time to start helping the seeds of future forage to grow. Sign up here!

Fall Foraging Class: Dragon's Breath Farm: Sept 10th
It's the push before winter. While we've been planning for it all season by noting plant locations. Now is the time for seed collecting, root digging, and maybe some fruits from the trees.
Sign up here!

Seed Saving Workshop: Dragon's Breath Farm: Sept 17th
Whether you are new to gardening or an old green thumb, seed saving can be a daunting enterprise. In our western world, we are used to different aspects of agriculture put into neat little boxes and it is rare for a farm that grows crops to also grow their own seed (unless that crop is a seed, like grains). But that's exactly what gardeners are looking for and it's also how the non-western agricultural world works. Yet, you don't need to be a subsistence farmer to want to save your own seed. Maybe you want to birth a new type of tomato, acclimate your favorite frost-sensitive annual to your little to harsh climate, save money, or deepen your relationship with the plant world ?   Sign up here!
 What's available this week? 

• Flowers!
  • Fresh Seasonal Bouquets 

Where to find it all?
Thursdays from 3-630pm at The Farmers Market at Libby 
&
Saturdays from 9-1230pm at the Kalispell Farmers Market