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.
Mommy has strep throat, so Daddy took the older three kids to the farm to give her time to recuperate. While there we worked on burying the first run of PEX pipe. Now, the trick to burying pipe for longevity is to make sure that there are no rocks next to the pipe. With movement… Continue reading Let’s play a game…
Saturday Morning, Ryan and Adam got about two hours of digging in on the trench. We dug about until sunrise before taking a fast break for breakfast. Adam had busted out the pick ax which definitely made a quicker job of breaking through the hardpan and dislodging stubborn rocks. Once the pack was loosened, then… Continue reading More Digging
Ryan and Adam have really been pushing hard to get the water line in for the past year. Whatthis involves right now is mainly a lot of digging. The trench has to be extended to at least 18 inches deep, which means that it needs to be wide enough to stand in, and in most… Continue reading Diggy Diggy Trench
We got out to the pasture after school was finished on Monday. Determined to get the trench finished this time. Only 40 feet to clear, but this part was tricky because it had to go over and around the weird extended leg of the septic system (yes, that's right. They ran the septic line all… Continue reading Beating the Sun
One of the major projects on the farm --- in fact, you might almost say the major project on the farm --- is finishing the perimeter fence around the pastures. This is the major project because without a perimeter fence there is no pasture. To do intensive rotational grazing there are two things you absolutely… Continue reading Racing the Sun
Adam and Ryan got out onto the pasture this morning, digging trench for the irrigation system that still needs to go in. 28° out, the ground was quite frozen, and of course it was a little over an hour before sunrise. But you dig when you have the time, not when the weather cooperates. Besides,… Continue reading Early morning digging
Little Farm in the Big City 