Curators Photogallery 4

Curator's Photo Diary
By Roy Hickling
Photography By Greg Amann

	August 2 Bill Gilroy arrives with Larry Giffen’s tilt truck to mow some grass. The weeds have grown up on the bare ground around the horse, giving us a nice green line but it’s time to knock them down so they won’t set seed.
Willy Gilroy demonstrates why they’re called tilt trucks, and gets to work
	All four crops that we are donating to the Canadian Foodgrains Bank are visible in this shot.
	August 6 Note how wilted the soybeans are. We have had the driest July in over 40 years and the fifth driest on record. This has definitely diminished our yield potential but in all other areas the project is going quite well.
	August 7 John VanderZaag pulls in with combine and potato truck to harvest the horse. John informed me that when he got to the field he stopped and thought it over before harvesting the body and near legs of the horse counterclockwise and the far legs in a clockwise direction. This sort of attention to detail and concern with the appearance from the air has been typical of our volunteers.
	The first crop is delivered to Charwen Farms’ elevator for the use of the Canadian Foodgrains Bank and the benefits of our project have officially begun.
	This sky is not only beautiful, it also brought rain on the weekend. Of course then it didn’t know when to stop, but you may already have noticed that there isn’t any type of weather that a farmer can’t complain about.
	August 12 Rob Henry swaths the canola, the second crop that will be gleaned from our project. The windrows are left to cure for a couple of weeks allowing the seed to harden up and lose moisture before harvesting. Bill Bowman combined it two weeks to the day later but we were unable to get a photo.

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