Farm Journal

#Meadow Garden#Building#Wild Plants#Animals#Cob

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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#Building#Planting#Animals#Meadow Garden#Carving

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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#Ducks#Planting#Building#Carving

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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#Workshops#Failures#Building#Fermentation

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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#Meadow Garden#Wild Plants#Building

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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#Wild Plants#Meadow Garden#Building

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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#Building#Meadow Garden

Monday, April 12, 2021

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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#Building#Dead Hedge

Monday, February 15, 2021

Attempt at mortise and tenon gate Dead hedge

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#Planting#Building

Thursday, February 11, 2021

Struggling Chinquapin and Freshly Waxed table

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