Posted in agriculture, cattle, farm as desired, farm life, redneck moments, rotational grazing, sustainability, tagged agriculture, beef cattle, cattle, farm life, redneck moments, rotational grazing on July 17, 2008 | 9 Comments »
This bruiser arrived by Bull Express on Tuesday. His name is Henry.
The steers like to hang out with bulls, and try to pick up a few pointers.
Henry will be here for 6 weeks, which will allow him to cover the cows through two heat cycles. If a cow doesn’t breed back in two heat cycles, [...]
Posted in cattle, farm as desired, farm life, frugal living, pastured poultry, rotational grazing, sustainability, tagged beef cattle, cattle, electric fencing, farm life, frugal farming, frugal living, rotational grazing, Salatin-style farming, sustainability on May 21, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Remember this is under the farm as desired category - sooo read this with grain of salt. This is what our electric fencing has evolved to. Our methods work for us and it has taken us a while to get here. We work with combination of permanent fences and different styles of electric fences for different [...]
Posted in cattle, farm as desired, farm life, frugal living, greenhouse, pastured poultry, sustainability, vegetable gardening, vegetables, zero mile foodshed, tagged beef cattle, farm life, greenhouse, pastured poultry, self-sufficiency, vegetable gardening, wildlife, zero mile foodshed on May 15, 2008 | 7 Comments »
We moved the cows from the Coyote (here we pronounce it Ki-yo-tee) field and through Cougar Heaven with no mishaps. One calf was born in the woods, but his mom bedded (told) him in the field we were moving them to. Smart Cow - she’s Jetta’s aunt, one of my mutts!
The road to Cougar Heaven.
I [...]
Posted in canning, cattle, farm dogs, farm life, food preservation, frugal living, pastured poultry, recipes, sustainability, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged Australian Shepherds, beef cattle, cattle, chickens, farm dogs, farm life, food preservation, frugal living, pastured poultry, scratch cooking, self-sufficiency on May 9, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Jetta update: Nothing! Next Tuesday???
First calf of the season.
I was glad to see this guy, he the first. This cow had twins last year, she did as good a job as possible, but they were considerably smaller than the singletons. When fall came I sold them at auction since they were smaller, and always hungry. Since [...]
Posted in cattle, compost, farm as desired, farm life, greenhouse, vegetables, zero mile foodshed, tagged beef cattle, compost, cover crop, holistic farming, Salatin-style farming, vegetable gardening on March 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We’ve had a glorious stretch of good weather this past week. The soil was dry enough to cultivate around the garlic, and it actually smelled like spring. My spring oat cover crop had winter-killed, so actually hoeing was easy, and I actually got a head start on those pesky, early germinating weed seeds. The winter [...]
Cinnabar moth larvae eating Tansy Ragwort