Kind of hard to tell just how many coats of paint on this sign, however, a fresh coat can only mean one thing; sweet corn season has arrived. We have some really nice corn coming ripe for the weekend. You can find us Saturday and Sunday at the Minneapolis Farmers Market 6am-1pm, and Saturday at the Mill City Farmers market 8am to 1pm.

i have some pretty big mits, so, objects next to them may appear smaller than they really are.
2 inches of rain today and impending hot weather leads me to believe 10 days to the first drizzling of corn; 3 weeks to watermelon.

i was checking on corn today, taking a few photos. the patch is pollinating and full of bees.
corn does not require a pollinator, however, the bees want the pollen. my neighbor, a knowledgeable fellow, says they will use this to cap the honey.
as i was observing the bees and trying to get a few photos, i thought to myself, i sure am glad this is not a gmo corn meant to kill insects because if it was, it sure wouldnt be great to have all that pollen hauled back to the hive. and i cant help but wonder, with all the bt/gmo corn grown across the country, couldnt that be a contributing factor to colony collapse?

Today, driving a tractor down hwy 12 was an eye opening experience. In a way, when riding a bike, I had been operating under the notion that people just didn’t like bikers. I thought if I was driving a tractor with a machine on the back, I would be wider and slower, but people would be more understanding and give more room. Well, the reality is, they are not. They are not understanding and they give less room. And, on a bike at least I can get out of the way, or try, but on a tractor I’m kind of stuck out in traffic and who am I to take away someone’s god given right to keep their foot on the gas no matter what. Maybe its painful to let up on the gas, I don’t know, I drive a car a lot like a tractor so even slow seems fast to me.

I talked to another farmer; he said, when he’s on the road he takes the whole lane; because if he hugs the shoulder they try and squeeze by at high speed, traffic or no, they’re coming through.

I’d like to blame the Republicans, and maybe some limousine liberal Democrats, but I have a feeling this is a bipartisan effort to get where one is going as fast as you can while keeping in constant contact with all friends using any and all hand held devises sipping a coke eating a burger petting one’s dog and catering to the kids every whim. It’s the American dream.

That state budget thing. What a bummer. No one is going to give in. We cant even slow down

a guy from the coop was out today; said this year most folks would be happy if this was how good thier field corn looked. this is the earliest sh2 (supersweet); just beginning to tassel; it'll be ripe the first week of august. all the corn is not nearly this nice, however, overall, the crop is improving with every warm day. some rain this weekend would be fantastic.
what you see in this photo represents about 10 days of corn.

a couple weeks of warm weather have helped the crops a lot. the watermelon are beginning to vine and the sweetcorn is showing some tassel. that's about a week to 10 days behind normal; I suspect it'll be the end of the month before we start harvesting.