It's almost the middle of November now and the farm is as busy as ever. Last week we picked Jerusalem artichokes which are a native new world plant similar to a sunflower. The roots produce tubers that resemble potatoes. We picked, washed, and boxed a thousand pounds which a distillery in Chicago bought in order to make some high end alcohol.
This week we've been busy setting up a winter greenhouse home for the ducks, chickens, and turkeys. We cleaned the area and mowed so that there would be less rat habitat, then lined the inside of the greenhouse with fresh cornbales. It's amazing how warm a greenhouse is even in the gales of November. The birds were happy to see their new home.
The name of the farm that I'm working on is King's Hill Farm. You can see pictures of the area if you search for the farm's website. It's postal address is in Mineral Point, but it's actually closer to the town of Belmont, which is where the first capitol of Wisconsin is located. There's another town just a mile away called Calamine, but there isn't anything there other than about twenty houses.
The entire region is called the driftless region and covers parts of Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, and Iowa. The glaciers didn't flatten the land like they did elsewhere in Wisconsin, leaving many more hills and ridges. There is also a lack of glacially deposited rocks or "drift": hence the name.
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