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Archive for October 2010
Next week Will is driving down to North Carolina for the Great Pyrenees, but until she becomes the inevitable center of attention, I thought I should let you know how the other not to be eaten animals are doing as of late. Delilah is definitely queen bee. Watson follows her around like a lost puppy [...]
This weekend, we let the chickens into the yard for a bit so the kids attending our farm warming party could have an animal to pet. The ladies were a huge hit. In another two weeks or so we’ll make this a regular part of their day, but we’re really waiting to hit that 10 week [...]
We [thought we] had everything ready but one crucial piece – a way to transport our three little piggies. Sure, we have a pickup, but we needed some sort of cage or top so the oinks wouldn’t abandon ship mid-drive. Will Googled the crap out of pig cage, pig carrier, transporting pigs, and nothing of [...]
Any day now we’ll be getting the call that the pigs are ready for pick up. Ultimately, we decided to purchase three – two that we’ll keep for breeding purposes and one that we’ll eat come spring. Since tamworths have an average of eight piglets in a litter, but up to twelve, I had this [...]
Last week, Will moved the now 6 week old chickens to the hoop house. This will be their permanent home, and we’ll use the electric poultry netting to day-range them on various parts of the pasture, once they are a bit bigger (i.e. less tempting for hawks). A good friend of ours gave us the [...]
It looks like someone isn’t content to live in the basement anymore. Of course, Samson may just have to deal for another week, as we will probably move the chickens to their hoop house tomorrow. And I don’t think we should tempt fate by adding two outdoor cats to the mix until the peeps get [...]
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Will’s Take on the Farm
- A catch up letter to good friend and former farm helper Jon. September 5, 2011Dear Jon, I will never have someone to help me down here on the farm that worked as hard or was as much fun to work with as you were. We rocked almost an acre of produce with just the two of us and a few hoes… A single plowing from a tractor, a couple of […]
- Garden Journal #3 August 3, 2011Things to remember for next years Spring and Summer planting. The Golden rule: thin more, seed less. I need a better Tomato trellis system, the post and cord method was fine but not great, I will try to make some cages, which is my favorite method but costly, I will also try a post and fence […]
- Garden Journal Entry#2 April 19, 20114/20/11 Today I finished planting the first of three rows in what we are calling the Pond Field which is about a quarter of an acre. Near the South end of this field I created another bed of 6 rows in which I planted English Peas, Radishes, Spinach, Kale, Arugula and Romaine. This is a partly shady […]