It’s that time of the year when plumes of wildfire smoke rise into the Eastern sky and fall in gray particulate layers on our cars and tractors and porches. It’s too hot to believe that we need to make haste in preparing the next batch of crops for our annual trial load.
At FieldLab, we look forward to the start of each new season. This year, before the new things begin in earnest, we thought it would be interesting to look back at a few of the highlights from 2021 that contributed to one of our best seasons to date.
The peach orchard that used to occupy this ground was in its waning years. Dead primaries hung reluctantly from a stump, tangled in tie twine as the remaining few live branches tried to put forth decent fruit in a sandy strip that runs diagonally through the property.