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We hope you enjoy the stories, news and pictures that we will be sharing through out our growing season. Fertile Crescent Farm, located in Green Bay, Virginia is free of all chemical fertilizers, fungicides and herbicides. It is our mission to grow the highest quality vegetables using a sustainable and ecological approach. This provides our CSA members and farmer's market customers with delicious and safe food, as well as providing a safe environment for the pollinators and pedatory insects that are so essential to our ecological community.



Monday, July 19, 2010

pictures worth ten thousand words

I'll start with this pic because Claire looks super cute! (I think her smile is betraying her true feelings - hot and tired)




SHOCKING - we're harvesting squash!!!!!




This is a carpenter bee coming in for a landing onto the flower of an okra plant




and leaving




trellised cherry tomatoes




more cherry tomatoes



beds and beds of winter squash and melons




picture perfect watermelon




click on this picture and it will reveal a close up of squash bug eggs on the flower and a tiny little squash bug near the winter squash




this pretty little burst of sunshine is the dreaded mexican bean beetle larva
little did he know, there's a new immigration detention facility out here, his days are numbered




Farm inspection!

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