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

'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

Comments

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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