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Late Summer Update on the Hobby Farm

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Everyone seems to be calling our place a farm these days, both sincerely and sarcastically, so I've decided to lean into it.  I'm not serious enough about being self sufficient to call myself a homesteader, but I'm also not trying to make any money like a farmer would.  Why not call ourselves hobby farmers?  We're just doing this for fun. It's been a busy summer here on the hobby farm.  Most of the pictures I have to share are loads of produce from my garden: An actual hill of beans, and a tomato the size of a coffee mug.   Cherry tomatoes, ground cherries, plus the first wave of slicing and paste tomatoes. I bought a cool new garden basket from a tiny local hardware store.  It's perfect!  Also, that is the longest Tromboncino zucchinis I got so far.  It was 2.5 feet long. We had a frost advisory in early September!  So we went out and picked everything we could use, including all of the green peppers and tiny Tromboncino zucchinis.  My ...