Farm Journal
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Monday, June 28, 2021
It’s been a hot couple of weeks in the mountains. Most of the garden is enjoying the weather -- some of our corn is waist high, and the potatoes are flowering. I spent quite a bit of time trellising …
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Monday, May 31, 2021
The ground squirrels have decided to claim this land as their own. Anywhere a squirrel could conceivably dig a hole, a squirrel has done so (especially in and around newly planted trees and berries).…
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Thursday, May 27, 2021
I’ve been attempting an alternative gardening approach since we’ve run out of room in the beds -- I call it the plant shit anywhere there’s a slim to reasonable chance of finding water method... I di…
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Monday, May 24, 2021
We held a knot tying workshop on Saturday, which went really well. There were only 7 or so people there, which ended up being a good thing, as you benefit from some 1 on 1 help with spatially difficu…
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Friday, April 23, 2021
It teased at raining yesterday, as a layer of mist settled on Wednesday and didn’t let up until this morning. Unfortunately we only got around a tenth of an inch. I’ve continued plugging away at the …
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Monday, April 19, 2021
I’m tired and beat up, but progress on the meadow garden continues. My friend David came up on Friday and we built the pergola slash entryway to the garden. It turned out well -- in an ideal world we…
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I worked like a dog this weekend and loved it. Friday Tom from Lumbercycle came up and we loaded up his trailer with manzanita scraps from our thinning for him to take to the macaw exhibit at the zoo…
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