Another Great Day With A Pocket Full of Hay
Autumn is my favorite season of the year. There is sense of magic in the year as the leaves fall and the smell of things settling into bed for the long winter mingles with the smoke from many fires. The world looks so cozy as it tucks itself up in fallen leaves. The end of …
When I farm I often have times that are quiet, times where I am doing repetitive tasks or things that allow my brain to wander. A year ago I often thought about how everything is connected. About how fungi create massive networks across my farm sharing nutrients from one end to another. About ways of …
My first year on the farm was a pretty good year, I grew my first watermelon, had a heifer (she was crazy and I ended up selling her), and I raised sheep and pigs. But I didn’t feel like a farmer. It wasn’t until my second year on the farm that I finally felt like …
We have an orchard where the trees are still pretty small and the grass grows. I have grazed it three times now (during the dormant season) and two of those times were very successful. The third time, I am sad to say, was not so much. I lost a branch, a whole (very small) tree, …
The south boundary fence line It became very apparent that a new fence was needed when I decided I would overwinter cattle. I took on 5 head, I know hardly the cattle ranch, and needed to be able to graze the far reaches of my vast 10 acres. The biggest problem I faced was a …