Chuck Zumbrun

Tales from Skunk Hill

  • Hard Cider

    With harvest done I have time to catch up on important tasks, like racking my hard cider. Tom and I crushed apples on October 14th, and the cider had been fermenting away ever since.

  • Done!

    We finished harvest today. It was an amazing harvest season, almost entirely free of mechanical troubles.

  • Safety is Job One

    At Zumbrun Farms we take safety seriously as evidenced by the photo below. In case you can’t tell what that is, it’s a board I cut to hold the clutch down on the tractor we use to run the auger to unload corn.

  • Picking Corn

    Picking corn today. These rows are a half mile long.

  • The Whopper

    I found this radish today while wandering around in the corn field. It weighs in at 9 pounds, and it broke off at the ground (Lana drove the combine over it) so there’s even more of it still in the ground.

  • Giving the Corn Dryer the Finger

    I was working on the corn dryer this fall. We were in the middle of corn harvest, pedal to the metal, corn everywhere, and the doggone corn dryer wouldn’t light.

  • Cider

    After last year’s apple bonanza apples are scare here this year. My trees had hardly any.

  • Driverless Car…

    Zumbrun.net is a happy place, but sometimes happenings are so egregious I can’t let them pass.