So another nice week as Fall settles in. Our first light frost got everyone's attention on the farms as we had to get livestock housing closed up and tender field crops covered up. Our Black Bean crop this year at Moore Farms was a bust: the deer devoured about 75% of the plants so we only had enough to save for next year's seed. This is the first time we have had significant damage from foraging deer, usually we allow for a little taste for them, not an entire field section! We have always believed that our diverse ecosystem on the property meant that they didn't really have to come looking in our field for food. Not sure if the neighbors are hunting more this year (maybe not enough!) or what, but we'll have to make more protection plans for next year's Beans. Still, the field is green with lots of great looking seedlings coming up for Fall-Winter-Spring.

Our friends Danny and Sandy Perry brought four more Ducks to the Farm this weekend: they had become too noisy for their suburban Atlanta backyard and needed a new home. We were happy to provide a Duck Refugee Program for them here at Moore Farms! They are all hens and will lay their Good Eggs for us and our Members. They join the rest of the gang in the Farmyard: Ducks, Chickens, Goats and Pigs. Sandy had raised them from baby ducklings and they are happy girls who apparently have a lot to say! They really do quack a lot. The picture shows the "newbies" two Crested Pekins and two Welsh Harlequins. See the cute feather tufts on the heads of the Crested Pekins? They look a little like they have feather hats on their heads!