A Late Fall Harvest

By chance this past week we found out that the tree farm, opening for the tree part of their season, also had vegetables!!  We could hardly wait the two days until Friday and we weren't disappointed with the weather we were given for a final harvest day of 2011.

At first glance, the cabbage field didn't look like much.  Which is the amazing thing about this plant. 

Just peel back the leaves, cut off the ones that didn't survive the frosts and reveal a perfect cabbage inside. 

And then, off to the turnip field.  Earlier this fall, the turnips were really small, I actually thought they were only grown for their green.  Fortunately I was mistaken and the white bulbs popped out of the ground in hefty sizes and we were able to easily fill a five gallon bucket.

Our home chicken flock was happy to eat the turnip tops that we twisted off in the fields.