Evie actually likes weeding. So here she is weeding row five in preparation for putting in more brassicas. The weeds themselves will be fed to the cows and sheep as a tasty treat.
I think this was Tuesday of last week. I had hoped to get the water line finished, but we ran into a snag.
Ellie was helping put the shutoff valve that would finish out the line. She is surprisingly strong for her size, and was actually able to get the pinch clamp closed completely all by herself.
This was supposed to go after the hydrant, like I did in the orchard, so that there is an easy way to splice into the water line if we ever want to expand it out, say to the end of the old lane way by the road.
There was just one problem…
The hydrant tee that I ordered to connect the hydrant in-line to 3/4″ pex-B, was not the right tee. This looks more like 3/4″ poly. So we could do no more that day, instead we had to order the part and wait for it to arrive on Saturday.
Last week, on Friday I spent the day digging. The early part of the morning was spent tearing out the last bits of the old fence and then digging out the trench all the way to the old lane, which is being transformed into a food forest.
It was about 80 feet of trenching with a 4 foot deep hole at the end, and took about 3 hours.
You can see the hose that was supplying the irrigation up to this point.
The hole for the frost-free hydrant.
And that was all I had time for that day.
Little Farm in the Big City 