Farm Journal
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Monday, April 5, 2021
It’s amazing how much time everything takes. Seems like every day I set out to do eight things and end up getting two of them plus half of another done. That’s how this weekend felt -- the clock is t…
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Thursday, April 1, 2021
It’s officially been a year since we moved out here. I’ve acquired more useful knowledge this year than in any other year of my life, much of it has come the hard way, and I’m grateful to this piece …
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Finished pruning the last tree yesterday -- the big gnarly pear. I know you typically are not supposed to top trees, but much of the growth above where I cut the leader looked diseased -- someone sug…
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Yesterday was Bernie’s birthday, so we went for a hike with dogs at William Heise. Not sure on ID, but this was all over. Looks kind of sagey but not that aromatic.Not sure on ID, but this was all ov…
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Saturday evening we stopped by Jesse Cross’s place and picked up some rootstock — 25 M.26 for apples and 10 Mazzard cherries. I’m excited to get grafting this week. Still not sure where we’ll put all…
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Spent the afternoon making soil blocks and starting seeds for our cukes and tomatoes and and friends. It still takes quite a bit of time, so I can see why this isn’t more common commercially. They ar…
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The clouds threatened all day and broke as soon as I went outside to work in the afternoon, and it drizzled through the night. All told we got around half an inch of rain, for which I’m especially gr…
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Pope Tree service spent several hours attempting to unstick their chipper, and more or less destroyed the section of the property in which they operated. They ran over several manzanita, unearthed so…
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Yesterday the chippers came out again, and it was sprinkling all morning, and of course they got the chipper stuck. They tried to get it out using a small skid steer with no luck, and it crushed a co…
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They came out yesterday for day one of chipping for our RDC fire safety grant, and although they said they weren’t going to chip anything over 4”, they brought a 12” chipper and made quick work of ou…
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