Farmall Cub

Last week it was summer, this week it is winter.  The mice, wasps and birds are eyeing our house as a delightful winter get-away.  A week or so ago I met a bird in the office, today there was one in the bedroom – perhaps the same bird.  We can only surmise that it is coming in and out through holes in the floor and walls, which says wonderful things about our energy efficiency. 

The calendar may say it is still spring, but it sure feels like summer at Tubby Creek Farm.  Summer crops are replacing spring ones, with summer squash starting this week and cucumbers likely next week.  The lettuce is done until fall, as are the snow and snap peas, broccoli, and other spring crops.  The farm looks more like summer, too.  The bright greens of spring are gone and the fields are golden with mature grasses.

WOW!  Things are moving right along at Tubby creek Farm.  The transition from summer to fall has been quick, yet pleasant with warm dry days.  We badly need rain yet the dryness has helped us do more prep work.

We have already sold a couple of our CSA shares for next year and have begun collecting deposites. For information on our CSA's check out our CSA page.

Another fall weekend at the farm, with what I expect to be the last of the hot weather.  Hot by October standards, anyway, but still beautiful for working.

This week, we started mowing and disking in our Sourghum-Sudan Grass cover crop.  Although we had seeded cowpeas with the sudan grass, they did very poorly, so essentially we ended up with a straight grass cover crop and not the grass/legume mix we had hoped for. 

This weekend we went down to the farm on Saturday afternoon after the Cooper-Young Farmers Market with the new implements for the front of the tractor.  Randy had spent the morning getting them worked over and ready to go.

Ok, so there is a little something special about the Farmall Cub, it has a fan club.  Yes, the Farmall Cub was and still is a very popular little tractor.  There are folks all over that collect these little gems even in France.

If anyone would have told me, even 3 years ago, that someday I would own a tractor I wouldn’t have believed it, that all changed this weekend.  Jo and I bought a 1949 Farmall Cub.  They are great little tractors that were mass produced starting in 1947.  You see, not that long ago, the small farm was the norm and there were small farmers in large numbers that needed a versatile, small, yet strong little tractor that could do several different jobs.