Today we introduced the pigs to their summer home and by evening they were definitely enjoying their shelter. We covered the entire floor of the shelter with a think layer of straw and added their old hay bedding from the barn stall just to provide them with a little familiarity. It was a very interesting […]
With temperatures reaching 52 degrees midday Sunday we were finally able to concrete greenhouse posts in greenhouse #5. Would you believe that this is the first time since December where we had a couple consecutive days reaching these temperatures? Last October Joe, Meagan, Caree and Carl dug 50 holes 2 feet deep for the greenhouse posts and […]
For the past 10 years we have been re-using seed tray inserts, flats and black landscape plastic. Of coarse a few seed tray inserts ware out each year and end up at the dump then eventually into the landfill. (Our rule when taking our trash to the dump is that you can’t bring home more […]
So Friday it was a little sunny and FINALLY the snow melted by late afternoon. We have cranked up the greenhouse and seeded most of our onions with anticipation of Saturday and Sunday being sunny and unfrozen so that we could work on outside projects rather than greenhouse work. Normally our winters have a few […]
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 […]
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”. […]