Well, harvest is over.  For the NKF staff, harvest began about two months ago with the tosai and nisai, which came at the end of a long and grueling breeding/growing/culling season.  Now the focus shifts to maintaining filtration and water quality in all of the greenhouses, and beginning our two month long quarantine process.  All of the Tategoi will be assessed and plans for who will be going to which mudpond begins.  Then we figure out which ponds will be used for breeding, which ones for growing, and potentially which breeding pairs will be spawned.  The harvest – breeding cycle is always in motion.

Thank you to everyone who braved the weather and came out to join us for Main Event!  We feel so very fortunate to have customers and friends who travel from as far as Canada, Florida, Illinois to be a part of harvest.  We especially want to thank our volunteers who were such a critical part of harvest…from landscaping to photography to milk runs to home cooked meals, thank you for all of your help…Steve Wernlund, Mike Frady, Verne Gilkes, Luke Frisbee, Dave Hicks, Mickey Stonepainter, Bob Brudd, Kavent and Dinah Bwint, Henry Culpepper, and Joyce Spears.

Some of our favorite moments from harvest…