What a difference a few short weeks can make. Halfway through September, drought had all but disappeared from Wisconsin. A few weather prognosticators were talking about something called a flash drought hitting parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin, but most wrote off those predictions.
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From the Fields | Jason Maloney
From the Fields: Jason Maloney
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Corn is chopped against a fall forest background in far-northern Wisconsin.
Cattle congregate for a morning discussion around the water cooler on a northern-Wisconsin pasture. Pastures are mostly green, but in need of rain from abnormal dryness in recent weeks.
Honey mushrooms await cleaning and processing. Honey mushrooms have look-alike mushrooms that are poisonous, including the deadly galerina. It’s wise to learn the difference from an expert.
Fresh-picked apples in baskets await customers along Chequamegon Bay.
Pumpkins in a pile wait to become pies and jack-o-lanterns.
A peck of luscious pears awaits a home canner.
Pumpkins attract customers to a farm stand as Halloween approaches.
A mix of winter squash is destined for sumptuous autumn meals.
A tangle of gourds waits for customers with an eye for fall decorations. They long to be paired with colored corncobs and corn shocks.
A passel of winter squash mingles with a pumpkin. All were destined to be dehydrated and ground into gluten-free flour.
Plump rosehips hang on a bush. Juiced for jelly or dried for tea, the hips make savory cold-weather treats.
Grapes hang on a vine near Wisconsin’s Lake Superior coast.
A farm stands offers fresh tomatoes, squash and gourds as an ersatz cow looks on in mid-October in far-northern Wisconsin.
Pumpkins fill the box of an antique truck outside Washburn, Wisconsin.
A jar of rose-hip jelly awaits pancakes or toast in a northern-Wisconsin kitchen.
A large box awaits apples in October in the Bayfield Fruit Loop, a group of orchards on the Bayfield Peninsula near Bayfield, Wisconsin.
Ripe apples hang in muted October sunlight.
Grape harvest progresses at a vineyard in the Bayfield Fruit Loop.
Signs point the way to orchards and berry farms in the Bayfield Fruit Loop near Bayfield, Wisconsin.
A black-eyed Susan radiates warmth in mid-October near Chequamegon Bay. Warm weather leads other plants, including strawberries, to also bloom.
Sunchoke flowers show radiant yellow in mid-October near Wisconsin’s Lake Superior shore. Usually the last blooms of the garden, warm fall weather means other flowers are providing competition this season.
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