Posted in agriculture, easily amused, farm as desired, farm dogs, farm life, frugal farming, haying, next year..., winter stores, tagged agriculture, farm dogs, farm life, haying, next year... on August 24, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Remember that hay that was getting wet? All baled and acting like 400+ sponges.
We have spent the last 2 1/2 days of DH’s vacation, cutting all the bales and spreading them by hand back into windrows. How’s that for backwards thinking? We have to be able to pick it up out of the field. Since we [...]
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Posted in agriculture, canning, cattle, farm as desired, farm life, next year..., pastured poultry, rotational grazing, sustainability, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged pastured poultry, zero mile foodshed, homesteading, winter stores, farm life, sustainability, frugal living, agriculture on June 28, 2008 | 13 Comments »
No gruesome photos today.
Here is the breakdown on the costs of raising this batch of chickens, and my thoughts on whether it is worth it or not. If I didn’t stretch these chickens so far, getting 5 days of lunch meat for DH, 2 family meals and a fair amount of broth per week, raising [...]
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Posted in Belly Acres (rant), agriculture, farm life, food preservation, frugal living, lost skills, next year..., seed saving, sustainability, vegetable gardening, vegetables, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged farm life, food preservation, frugal living, root cellar, self-sufficiency, zero mile foodshed on June 6, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Our temperatures here have been hovering between 42 and 52 for a week. The sun, if we see it, is like a phantom. Here and then gone, making you wonder, was that the sun? Definitely not good gardening weather. At this point, June 6, I’ve lost my window to plant my Calais Flint corn. I [...]
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Posted in cattle, farm life, food preservation, heirloom fruit, next year..., vegetables, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged Australian Shepherds, grazing, heirloom fruit, history, winter stores on March 10, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Here is a sign of spring in our area, Delphinium Trollifolium locally known as Staggerweed, or poisonous larkspur. This plant is really the only poisonous plant that grows near here that the cattle have no aversion to. It is one of the first green things in the spring and is readily grazed by cattle. Horses [...]
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Posted in canning, compost, farm as desired, food preservation, greenhouse, next year..., pastured poultry, winter stores, tagged canning, dry land farming/gardening, preserving on February 19, 2008 | No Comments »
I should have called this blog FARM AS DESIRED, this is just my attempt to record this portion of the history on our family farm. If you quilt, you know what I mean by Farm as desired. We read farming books and blogs and any info we can. We ALWAYS learn something - I never begrudge paying $30.00 for a how-to book. If it saves [...]
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