Photos of the week

 

Making pickled banana peppers and jalapeno relish.

We've been harvesting dry field peas for seed and winter eating.

The acorns are falling, a favorite food of our hogs.  Did you know they spit out the shells, though?!

Snacking peppers

 

Aji dulce peppers

 

Spice peppers

 

Photos of the week

The sweet potato field

The new growth leaves of one variety are purple

Do you know what these are?  Peanut flowers.  Once they flower, they will push into the ground and start forming into a peanut.

The white bag on the pepper plant is one of our first efforts to isolate pepper flowers to save seed in our production field.  Normally, to save seed, we grow one variety in a distant field to isolate it.  With bags, we're hoping we can isolate many varieties in the same place.  The goal is to exclude insects that might pollinate the pepper flowers.  Once we see a pepper has formed, we take the bag off and mark the pepper then let it completely mature.

 

Corno di toro

 

Pimento pepper

 

Jimmy Nordello frying pepper