Thursday, January 31, 2013

AND SO IT BEGINS....

In the eye of the cook or gardener
or the farmer who grew it, this food
reveals itself for what it is: no mere
thing but a web of relationships
among a great many living beings,
some of them human, some not,
but each of them dependent on
the other, and all of them ultimately
rooted in soil and nourished by sunlight.

~ Michael Pollan









...another season is here.
40,000 onions in the
ground....
to be continued.

22 comments:

  1. oh my goodness tracey! that's alot of onions! i bet it smells so good, my mom used to love driving by fields of onions.

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  2. The farming year must be a constant turning wheel. I love onions... such a wonderful nourishing food.
    Much love to you Tracey.x

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  3. You are amazing. Gosh. I can hardly deal with my 8-10 square feet of garden.

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  4. ...eeeeap I can't believe you are starting your growing season already. I love how you did the images from vast to close up- rock on farmgirl!
    xo

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  5. Love this! We are very ready for spring over here!

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  6. you have an onion farm? how did i not know this? wow. 40,000 onions. man oh man

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  7. that's an amazing amount of onions. yum!

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  8. That is a lot of onions! I love it! I have never grown onions before, I never can get them started early enough :-)

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  9. I think i'll stick with my 2 dozen onions!!! your farmland is beautiful!!

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  10. Goodness! That will keep you busy!

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  11. I bet it smells like the beginnings of a soup when you drive by mixed with fresh dirt :) Are you an onion farmer????

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  12. I want to see you driving the tractor and my visions will be complete.
    XO

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  13. Lovely! I didn't realize you lived on a big farm like that. I just thought you had an amazing garden! Those photos put a smile on my face and I love the quote, too.

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  14. oh my goodness how wonderful - it has to be one of my most used vegetable.

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  15. Wow! That is impressive Tracey. I did not know you guys had an onion farm!

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  16. impressive and really interesting. can't wait for the continuation. are onions your specialty or do you grow other things as well?

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  17. I always dreamed of living on a farm when I was a little girl. I used to cut the grass and pretend I was harvesting and making hay. How wonderful...I hope you have a good harvest...
    Deb

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  18. That's a lot of onions! I was surprised that I was able to grow the dozen or so I got to come up. I can't imagine 40,000. I'm fairly certain I'd lose track after 50!

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  19. Look at all of those green tops.. amazing!

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  20. Very good to be reminded where our food comes from and how much hard work it takes to cultivate and grow food.

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  21. And so the season begins. If we ever get our little patch of land, I will have much to ask you.

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