TODAY IN THE ORCHARD
Last night we had our first real snow in a few weeks. The rain of two nights ago washed away the remaining snow, but the temperatures dropped all day, and the snow began by late evening. Today was cold and windy. The orchard is once again covered with snow. I taught a grafting class to my Colby students in the afternoon. Only two of them needed bandaids! Having none, we were able to make do with masking tape. By late evening the temperature had dropped to -10F. It promises to be a cold night on the farm.
The “BRC” orchard in 2015 when the trees were young, before we put up a deer fence. The tripods around the young apple trees were wrapped in chicken wire to fend off the deer.