We have been making vermicompost here on the farm for about a decade. Each season we construct a new compost pile that is roughly 50 feet long by 5 feet across. We first put a layer of straw/goat poop from mucking out the goat barn. This is followed by a layer of horse manure from […]
Our weather here in the mountains has been very warm so things around the farm are growing ever so quickly. It has been in the 70’s during the day which is a little unusual to have temperatures this warm in March. We are currently working on fencing the pig pasture because as the weather warms […]
Our farming season is well underway, so we will be spending less time strategizing, planning and executing our timber harvest plan for the farm vacation cabin. With us getting busy growing food and Lee scheduled to return to Maine the beginning of April, we decided that we best harvest a relatively large tree (to us), […]
That is how I felt after looking back over what little I’ve accomplished this past week… Carl has reason to fire me. On Thursday, all I did was assist Carl somewhat installing greenhouse end walls, tend to the little piggies and goats, clean up white pine tree branches and stack the wood. On Friday all […]
And seeding won’t end until September – but I feel a bit of relief – knowing that we will hopefully deliver something edible to our CSA come early May. Once we begin heating our propagation greenhouse, especially since it is heated with propane, we try to fill it with seeded flats as quickly as possible […]
With the weather warming it seems that everything on the farm is moving much too quickly for me with the exception of seed starting. Perhaps it is my age or maybe because I am a little apprehensive about farm vacations. The ground finally thawed and Alvin and his brother Joe began working on the road […]
In the next year and a half we hope to be offering farm vacations. For the past 5 years, with the exception of the last 2 winters, Carl and I have been doing computer work during the winter and for a few hours each week during our growing season, which considerably supplemented our farming income. […]
We have been farming for 12 years and it still amazes me the amount of produce that can be grown from such a small amount of seeds. These seeds will provide 100 families with most of their veggies from mid May until the end of October. Each week, throughout our growing season, we are harvesting […]
I can’t count the number of times we have done things where we later ask ourselves, “What were we thinking???” Five years ago we had our neighbor, who saws wood for a living, pile slabs of wood in a field of ours in vegetable production but where we had a terrible time dealing with fescue […]
I went on a hike today after “predator proofing” the chicken coop and had a pleasant surprise of actually seeing bare ground as we have had snow on the ground for the past several weeks. I certainly hope that the snow melts because I would like to begin cutting wood stacked in a field we […]