It is suddenly dry and warm, which is what we have been praying for, and that allowed us to work up some ground and transplant the first succession of greens out to the field. Last Friday after transplanting just two beds we became a little worried about our little babies because they wilted so bad […]
Category Archives: WP Migration
Michael Pollan is one of my favorite food writers so I am posting a link to articles of his that are extremely thoughtful and worth re-reading from time to time. With Health Care Reform underway I think the below article is worth re-reading: Farmer in Chief Below is a great article in support of a decentralized […]
We are so thankful that our soils dried enough this week allowing us to work up some ground for direct seeding. Direct seeding is when we place the seeds right into the soil out in the fields. We do much more seed starting than direct seeding. We use the term seed starting (growing transplants) for when we […]
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 […]