The grass is coming back in the pasture, slowly. To buy time until it is ready to put the sheep and cows back on it, we have run them through the orchard, and pastured them on the laneway, but they still want more. We don’t want to feed them exclusively on hay before winter even really gets started. So last Thursday (Oct 3) Seppi and Winnie and Daddy got some electric netting set up so we could put them in the hedgerow at the east end of the farm.
First, let’s get warmed up with a quick kettlebell lifting session. Seppi is looking very coach-like right now.
A temporary solution to getting electricity out to the pasture. Once the electrical work is finished in the shop we will mount it permanently again.
A new setup out here. As it turned out, the grounding wasn’t adequate, but we fixed that a few days later.
The sheep know that when the humans move the white fences, it means new grass soon.
“That’s where me and Uncle put it together.”
Winnie help!
It took far too long to set it up, because we’ve never used electric netting in the hedge area. We tried a couple of different things before we found one that would work.
Seppi and Winnie are troopers.
But it’s hard being short and having to wade through deep grass with himalayan blackberry vines hidden underneath it.
“Dada! Pick Winnie Up!”
You can’t blame her for getting a little frustrated with the whole process.
“Jerusha” the Jerusalem Artichoke is doing just fine.
According to the tag this is supposed to be a Jefferson Hazelnut.
That looks an awful lot like a black walnut to me.
Same with this one. We might have to dig these out, because we definitely don’t want a walnut growing back here.
Seppi demonstrating how to use a fiberglass fence post as a spear.
One side of the fence was powered by the Solar fencer. The other hooked directly to the hardwire fence.
Now time to let the livestock into their new playground/buffet.
Good luck boys!
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