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.
Early this year, in January, I think, we had two big willow trees on the farm cut down from some 30-40 feet tall to about 6 feet tall. There were several reasons for this. Both were in inconvenient locations. One was shading the garden and slowing the soil warming in the spring. The other was… Continue reading Tree Hay
A far cry from when we first got them and they wouldn’t let a human within arm reach. I mean the steers. But she was too pretty not to take her picture. The sheep will happily bound over and eat all the alfalfa pellets. The steers are a little bit more circumspect. But they let… Continue reading Happy Cows
Getting ready to go to the farm on Tuesday Morning. Seppi picked out his farming outfit with care. Hat to keep the sun off. 'Spenders to keep his shorts up. Boots to keep his feet from getting poked. And a bag of books, because we had to go to take the older girls to violin,… Continue reading Helping out
We finally got to the thing! The intensive pasture management, or rotational grazing, or whatever you want to call it, that we have been planning on since Ryan started reading all the farming books during the pandemic, before we even had a farm. Almost two years after buying this farm, we finally have the infrastructure… Continue reading We are really doing it!
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!
Little Farm in the Big City 