They will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit.
Right now the process is too time consuming. We are going at look at ways to improve the process so it only takes a few minutes. At the beginning of the week last week we found that the sheep were beginning to test the fence. Their side of the fence was eaten down pretty low,… Continue reading Setting up a new paddock
Well, it's not pretty, but it will do. Two 8-foot gates closing a 16 foot gap at the end of the laneway. They are only fastened by two relatively light chains with extremely light clips, but there is a pile of rocks (yes, I know, but I was in a hurry) behind the middle section… Continue reading Opening up the lane… by closing it off!
Saturday we spent most of the afternoon racing to get the rest of our orchard order into the ground. Bare-root trees have a limited time before their roots dry out and they die. We picked up the order on Thursday, and it was well packed in wet mulch and newspapers, but we didn't want to… Continue reading More Orchard Planting
After the bull pasture fiasco (which took up most of the morning) Daddy and Uncle and Seppi and Edmund got busy planting our new orchard trees and bushes. As we mentioned before, our orchard is not so much a single discrete area as it is a network of fruit trees, vines and bushes scattered around… Continue reading Food Hedge Planting
The ultimate goal of having cows is for them to eat our grass and turn it into meat and milk. Accordingly, we want to get our bulls out on pasture as quickly as possible to take advantage of the Spring flush. (I say "bulls" and not "steers" because, despite the fact that they have been… Continue reading Bulls on Pasture
Well folks, we did it! We got ourselves some cows. Generic cows, that is, as in bovines. Not actual female cows. We answered the add for beef cattle feeder calves, the cheapest price we could find (not cheap) and Daddy and Ellie and Seppi made a day of it to go pick them out and… Continue reading Bulls!
Sorry about such a long gap between updates. We have been very busy doing stuff, and we took a break for three days at the beginning of the week to drive down to Oregon and play on the beach. During that time, we were too busy hanging out together and watching the children run in… Continue reading A Planting Kind of Day
It has been a while since any update. There is a good reason for this. Grandma Ann is visiting and we have been spending time vacationing with her. We drove down to the Oregon coast for a few days, chiefly to watch the kids playing on the beach, to judge from the pictures we brought… Continue reading Fancy Fencing
A new batch of chicks is coming this week, and we are going to try something new with it. We are going to keep the chick brooder in the chicken coop. There are two reasons for this. One is so that the new chicks and the old chicks will get used to the sight, sound… Continue reading Trying something new
Little Farm in the Big City 