So once again we are probably taking on more than we should but we couldn’t resist! For quite some time we have had plans of reclaiming about an acre of farmland that is seeded in fescue. What we know, from our ten years of farming, is that fescue is not an easy grass to get rid […]
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we were finally able to tackle a few outside tasks. We spent a few days this past week cutting and hanging rafters on the wood shed and are pleased to be done with that phase of the project. Most construction projects use trusses set on top of headers for the roof structure. About a decade […]
We have about completed our seed planning for the 2010 season. Doesn’t it sound like an easy part of farming? What we do is go through catalogs from each of the 20 suppliers who have sent them to us and select varieties and the packet size for the amount of seeds that will meet our […]
So it was 18 degrees midday this week and we decided to take a trip to the tropics. In just a little over 5 minutes we were in the tropics soaking up sunshine in 80 degree temperatures! That is what the greenhouse is to us in the winter and it definitely warms the soul. In […]
It has been 15 years since we had a puppy, mainly because we kept adopting dogs that have been abandoned in our community, and because these dogs are older, we have never easily been able to train them as a “Farm Dog”. The most recent dog we adopted, named Bailey, who we nicknamed the “Terrorist”. […]
The deer fence was designed for withstanding limbs falling on it, but not for trees, and we should be keeping all the trees cut from along the fence. This was our first downed tree on the fence, so we sawed the tree, and once the tree was off the wire, the wire popped back […]
All three of our vehicles need a brake job. Up here in the mountains that is almost an annual job depending on how often one drives to town. (We do have another couple vehicles on that aren’t running so their brakes tend to last a long time!) The power just came on after being out […]
The temperatures dipped down to 15 degrees this week and highs during the day on Thursday and Friday while harvesting were 34 and 26 degrees. That meant harvesting and processing in cold, freezing weather! Once our produce is harvested, it is taken to our processing and packing shed which is in the back of our equipment […]
The wood boiler weighs about 2,000 lbs without water and this particular model, is a Central Boiler eClassic 2300 and boy can it hold some wood! We will have to photograph that in the next couple days! The wood boiler being very heavy, the fellows brought a real fancy flat bed truck complete with a hydraulic […]
This Thanksgiving we are thankful for our family, for the land, rain, sun, Caree, Joe and Meagan who helped in growing the food that has sustained us for the past season. We are also thankful for so many wonderful folks in our community who work so hard at the food pantry that is currently assisting […]