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.
We are deep into the dry season. The rainstorm at the beginning of August was nice, but it didn't last long. The pasture is dry and grasses are not growing fast enough. We are still moving the sheep through the pasture, but with very large paddocks, only for one day. We are also feeding hay… Continue reading Pasture Plans
We are a little behind on blogging. Holy Week and the Triduum were busy, plus the kids decided to start a little Strepidemic running through the house. So what can we say, it's been an off week. Happy cows are tasty cows! The willow and witch hazel in the pasture are starting to leaf out.… Continue reading Catch Up
All the trees here are 2-3 year saplings, still building their basic structure. Pruning is important, but pretty straightforward. Oh, and taking out the wild cherry saplings. Those things are weeds. Too thick for Ellie Belle. She got about halfway through it but couldn't make it all the way through so Daddy had to finish… Continue reading Food hedge pruning
About a year ago Daddy and Seppi and Winnie were out in the north pasture near the beehives. The small ones have grown a lot in the last year. They are become less small... More mighty. We have to revamp our tree protection system this year, for a couple of reasons. For one, I didn't… Continue reading Willow/Witch Hazel/Orchard update
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
Our elderly neighbor had a couple of big old cottonwoods, overgrown with ivy, that have been ominously leaning over our barn, shop, and hogcken coopen for the last two years since we have owned the farm. We finally got around to chatting with him about it, and worked out a deal to get a local… Continue reading Timber!
It is February, time to get the fruit trees pruned. This is a time consuming job every year, but it is also a fun job, once you get the hang of it (and when I say "get the hang of it" I mean, develop a hermeneutic of pruning that allows you to move through each… Continue reading Pruning time
Last Friday, Daddy had to take part of the day off work, because Winnie had a bad rash. Apparently she had mono when she took the amoxicillin for her ear infection, so she ended up with a pretty prominent mono rash. So what do you do when you are feeling sick? Obviously, go to the… Continue reading Planting trees, with kids and pigs
Little Farm in the Big City 