Farm Tourin'

Last Thursday, a bus pulled into our shops...

Field Trip? Dropping off some kids?

Nope!

We were a stop on a North Alabama Extension Service farm tour!

They stopped by to check out our farm, see our equipment, and to talk about poop. No really. They wanted to know all about how we use chicken litter as fertilizer.

The Extension Agents asked lots of questions, and we gave a lot of answers. Here's Lance's Uncle Jim talking in the microphone and Lance and neighboring farmer Pat Whitley looking on.

I can't tell if the look on their faces shows knowledge absorption or heat exhaustion, lol.

They also checked out our cotton...

and our peanuts. They are growing pretty good!

We only have 4 acres of soybeans left to plant, but the fields haven't dried up enough yet for that!

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Speaking of growing pretty good...

Here's some of the cherry tomatoes in our garden. They're the only thing we're getting out of the garden so far since we had a late start.

This is the biggest regular tomato we have. If I wasn't so excited to have my first "big" tomato, I'd pick that sucker and turn it into a fried green tomato, lol.

Here's one of my cucumbers. He's looking pretty tasty.

And here's my squash. At the moment, I only have 1 squash and 1 cucumber plant producing because the rest of the plants are just now peeking out of the ground after being replanted, thanks to a certain farmer and his tiller. *ahem*

My 2 bell pepper plants have some itty bitty peppers.

I'm still concerned about my okra though. It got drowned, then half of it stood back up, now I'm not sure if it's still growing or not. Oh well, at least it's still green, lol.

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This might be my last post for a week or so, we'll be leaving on our annual Smokies camping trip on Saturday and returning next Friday! Henry is going to be our official photographer, so stay tuned!