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.
Last Thursday Seppi and Winnie and Daddy built another fence anchor. Since we were trying to have a family day, we decided to see how fast we could build it. First step, run the straight line. Then download the tools. Third, measure exactly 12 feet for the gate. Fourth, mark the sod under the straight… Continue reading Subdividing the Pasture: Third Fence Anchor, building for time.
One of the most laborious tasks of the rotational grazing on the two main pastures at the farm is running of the long center line fence. This takes a full morning or afternoon to move every time we need to move from the North to the South Pasture, or vice versa. The long bundles are… Continue reading Dividing the Pasture: First gate
Seppi and Daddy had to move the steers to the South pasture on Monday. They have been on the North Pasture since March 25th, and have been doing a good job keeping ahead of the grass. The grass is now eaten down to an average length of about 6 inches, which is about as low… Continue reading Moving Pastures
Monday Daddy and the two youngest went down to TSC to pick up some fencing supplies for our next project. We loaded them in the bed of our long-suffering pickup truck. It was raining off and on all morning. Once we got to the farm it was time to unload the truck. Seppi is very… Continue reading I am so strong!
Clock is ticking! Saturday morning we go live with our Second Annual CiderFest! First step is getting the propane stove in the shop... fired up! It gets cold sometimes, when you are cutting up apples and grinding and smashing them all day, and the ability to warm your little fingers from time to time makes… Continue reading Preparations are Under Way
If there is one thing I have learned from working on the farm it is that you don't know what you don't know. You can plan and plot and run the scenario a dozen or a hundred times in your head, but still find out when you actually go to put it together that there… Continue reading A disappointing day
Didn’t get much time at the farm yesterday, spent about an hour in the afternoon, getting a new paddock set up for the cows and the sheep in the Orchard, and prepping the legume to be planted to wheat, hopefully today. Math. Still needs to get done. One of the things we needed to set… Continue reading Clearing the legumes
Uncle Adam got time to do some digging yesterday. And... He found our water line! Only about 20" down or so, which is not typical for water lines around this place. It also makes me feel a bit ridiculous for having dug four feet down for part of the trench. We will leave that little… Continue reading Found it!
Saturday morning, just like most mornings right about now, Daddy was digging a ditch, somewhere between 5 and 6 AM, and he looked at where the ditch started... And where the ditch was going... and realized that this is more or less the line where we want to build a gate across the driveway. This… Continue reading Squirrel!
When I was a kid, my Dad and Grandpa had a fencing wagon. It was a large flatbed that pulled behind a tractor, always disorganized, loaded with a jumbled rack of wooden fence posts and rolls of wire, stacks of step-in metal fenceposts, buckets and bags of insulaters and gate handles, usually a few fencing… Continue reading Fixing Fence
Little Farm in the Big City 