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 […]
Normally the Sunday morning after market is spent with a relaxed morning eating a hearty breakfast consisting of eggs and potatoes, spending an hour on the internet reading the news since we don’t have TV reception, reading books and perhaps doing a load of laundry. No time for chilling out this past Sunday because another […]
The trenches finally drained enough for us to finish running the power, irrigation water lines and drainage pipes. That took a little longer than we expected but we are ready to fill in the trenches so perhaps we can then access our compost pile. We didn’t realize how frequently we use the compost pile and […]
So we didn’t quite complete running our irrigation pipe and our electricity before the rain came last week and we are thankful of that! We weren’t planning on tying our drain pipes running along each of our greenhouses into a main pipe because we didn’t see much water coming from the pipes along our greenhouses […]
This past week Alvin had Randy use his trac-hoe to trench for supplying each of our greenhouses with irrigation water, electricity and hot water lines so we can heat them using a wood boiler. Randy was amazing at running the trac-hoe and was able to trench right up to our greenhouse frames without touching […]
This past week we set the posts for the wood shed, which means plumbing and concreting them, meanwhile measuring to be sure they are spaced according to our wood shed plans so their alignment can be adjusted appropriately. NOTICE THE BEAUTIFUL MOUNTAINS IN THE BACKGROUND SPLATERED WITH FALL COLORS! Our valley is gorgeous and we are blessed to […]