Since the beginning of April we pretty much work 6 days each week with only a couple weekends off which is why we take an entire week off for our annual “Thanksgiving Vacation”. During our vacation this year, we spent a few days doing a little “spring cleaning”, then simply enjoyed spending time with Mom, […]
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Thanks to Danielle and Townes, I had both Saturday and Sunday off last week which was the first since mid April. HOORAY! I mentioned to a couple of our CSA members that I was going to have both Saturday and Sunday off and so Jane Thomas asked something like, “What is it like for you […]
I hope you don’t think I am complaining about the snow because it is beautiful and supposedly adds nitrogen to the soil, apparently sequestering it from the atmosphere, which helps in making our air cleaner and healthier. I am not sure if toxins are added to the soil when the snow melts, but our soil […]
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 […]
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”. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Here on the farm our large meal is midday and incredibly important, mainly so that we keep our energy level up, especially since we are busy hoeing, seeding, transplanting, and doing many more chores that I can’t mention because of the lack of disk space the internet, usually we are doing these chores in the […]
Harvey Our Guard Dog (click Picture for larger size) Harvey is our guard dog who is an Anatolian and Great Pyrenees mix. He spends his entire life living with goats and currently has 16 goats to care for. A typical day for Harvey begins with his breakfast early morning. While he is eating, we also […]
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