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Bringing in a New Year

On the last day of 2011, three brave souls--Katy, Evan and Rawley--came with me for a farm tour at Pleasant Grove Farm.  Here's a little of what we saw:

Grain Bins, Christmas Tree, Fuel Tanks
Katy, Evan and Rawley do their thing on the catwalk
Seed Cleaner

Inside the seed cleaning mill
Rawley on an old land grader


Old electric well motors--may be where R2D2 is from
Parts from cultivating implements
The old parts (not junk!) yard

John Deere CTS Rice Combine
Tractors enjoying their 2 week farm vacation

Rawley getting ready to harvest some rice...it's gonna be a long wait
Corn Harvester
This machine spends 3 months harvesting and 9 months as a very expensive cat perch

Tractors and combines

The Pleasant Grove Farm Machine Shop
The Sutter Buttes to the north

Harvesting the last bits of rice

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'Winter' Wheat
We celebrated the New Year together at Katy and Evan's farm in Esparto, eating tamales, black eyed peas and their delicious pomegranates.  After a pancake breakfast I headed to the Capay Valley to spend first day of 2012 in one of my favorite places:

View of Rumsey Canyon from the 'New' Trail

Another view of the Sutter Buttes

Capay Valley
Chickens at Full Belly Farm


Pear orchard in Winter Time
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GJW said…
love these pics reed! wish we couldve been there but seeing these is next best thing. happy new years!
January 2, 2012 at 5:52 AM
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