Labor Day weekend marked the watermelon harvest...a most delicious chore!
Tomato time!
Dr. Grace Charles of Steamboat Naturopathic visits Walnut Hill Farm for a few days to help with the harvest!
Keeping it tidy
Pam Swisher of Union Square Events helps in tidying up after the weekend harvest!
Public Enemy #1
John inspects this colorful caterpillar and soon realizes it is the dreaded hornworm. This pest is the Tobacco Hornworm, as identified by his 7 stripes, and is capable of decimating whole tomato or pepper plants in no time! Nash and Katrina spent a morning picking them off by hand, but it's a challenge because of their incredible ability to blend into the foliage. An organic solution will be used to spray the plants with bacillus thuringiensis (BT), a natural and safe microbial pesticide.