Red-tailed Hawk is a majestic bird that has chosen our farm to live for the past 2 years. This month, finally, I could click a decent picture of it sitting on a dead branch of a yellow poplar tree. Searching the net, I found that it stands for good luck or other positive associations. A…
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Decorative Handmade Pots
This season, we are adding a new offering from our farm. Handmade decorative pots with succulents…These will be on premises farm sales only. Jade and Tephrocactus articulatus (Paper Spine Cactus) planted in pots made of Oui yogurt glass jar.
Downy Woodpecker
Downy woodpeckers are the smallest of the woodpeckers found in North America. They are omnipresent on our farm, though we have yet to find if it’s actually nesting in the farm woodlot. Woodpeckers are known to be big eaters of insects and work tirelessly foraging for insects all around. We think they are a boon…
New Year, New Dreams
Year 2021 was a year of reflection, year of building back from the setback of the year 2020. In the year 2020, due to travel restrictions, I was stranded out of the country for almost half of the year. Lost all the bees and vegetable production remained zero in 2020. However, as they say, every…
Humming Bird
The farm is home to humming birds who just love the zinnias flowering through out the season. In general, hummingbirds love flowers like trumpet flowers, hibiscus, zinnias, lupin, petunia, bee balms and bleeding hearts, to just name a few. What you will find interesting is besides petunia, all are perennials and very easy to grow….
Seed Pod Surprise
Trumpet Flower vines (Campsis radicans) in the farm, after 3 year produced this interesting 4″ long seed pod! It was left alone for almost 3 months and finally harvested last week. I had never seen something like this before. The pod was beautifully packed by wafer thin seeds. The seeds were flat, oval dark brown discs…
Snapping Turtle
Common Snapping Turtle (Chelydra serpentina) is a large (upto 18″ long), rugged and muscular turtle which can live around 100yrs. It is found in shallow (and muddy) fresh waters. Our farm being adjacent to Lake Marguerite and multiple streams, can be a likely habitat of these beasts. On May 7th, our dog, Willow, sighted one of…
Stewardship Forest
Integrated farming aims to incorporate organic farming, using sustainable agriculture practices, protect the environment, promote healthy living with good social and economic viability. Besides the organic farming, Greenbytes has now enrolled in the USDA Forest Stewardship Program (FSP). Under this program, private landowners get support for developing and executing a forest management plan with a…
Creeping Charlie
It is an interesting weed from the mint family, commonly called ‘ground ivy’ and botanically named as ‘Glechoma hederacea’. It is a perennial with vines spreading even beneath the plastic mulch and creeping out from any opening. It was introduced by Europeans in the North America and is one of the difficult weeds to control….
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