Cropping

While weeding the flower bed I dug up lots of wild parsnips. Not that impressive to a commercial grower, no doubt, but impressive from the point of view that it is free food that required no effort from me at all.

Also looks promising for when we do get around to intemtionally growing parsnips and carrots.

And decidedly more impressive than the raspberry harvest of two and a half mangey raspberries, that didn't even warrant a photograph. Not even the deer bothered to steal them. One of the tasks this winter is to clear the overgrowth around the raspberry plants and hopefully give them more of a chance. 

The butternut squash did better

And hopefully they will benefit from the new rat proof storage system: