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.
Her "Buck-bucks" wanted to go scratch through the pigs' straw pile, so she helped them out. What comes out, must go in. Eventually we should alter the fence lines so the chickens can forage in the pig pen, but right now they would jsut get out into the driveway and make a mess and then… Continue reading Winnie Help!
Maybe. The ultimate goal of getting our rotational grazing set up is to be able to move cows and sheep, +/- pigs, and poultry of some type around the pasture every single day, with less than one hour of work per day most days. We anticipate having seasonal ups and downs, e.g. planting and harvest… Continue reading So easy a child could do it
Last Saturday, after the bull calves casually walked through our (somewhat) electrified netting for no apparent reason, Mommy and Daddy went on a date. I record that here because we made a resolution at the beginning of the year that we were going to do one date per month, and so far so good! Of… Continue reading It never goes smoothly…
Thursday was the first day we tried to stretch the fence in the pasture. Got off to a good start, but ended up not going according to plan. The problem was that I actually have no idea how to stretch a woven wire fence, and had no idea how much stretch it would have. So… Continue reading Best laid plans
All this farming... And hard work... Can make for one tired baby girl. But in an hour she will be up and at it again.
We have been having issues with the dog lately, running back into the berry patch behind the garden. He likes to run back and forth along the fence separating the berry patch from the old orchard, barking his head off at the pigs and the geese, trampling the goumi berries and disturbing the mother goose… Continue reading Down by the Garden Gate.
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…
You know, some cultures believe that a child will grow up to take on the qualities of the name that he has been given. In my Dad's case this was eminently true. I don't know very many people who have... Dug.. More dirt than he has? ;-D There's a reason no one ever called him… Continue reading Phase 1 complete: The Digging is Dug
Yes. Evie he’s wearing a hard hat to feed the chickens. No, we don’t know why. We just go with it. But look at the little Winnie girl, feeding her chickens!
In the week between Christmas and New Years (known in more enlightened civilizations as the Octave of Christmas) school teachers do not have to work. This is why Uncle Adam was off for the week, and was available to help out with recovering the garden from last year and beginning the process of prepping it… Continue reading Garden Prep
Little Farm in the Big City 