Farm Journal
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
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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Monday, March 8, 2021
This weekend we finished the two week effort to clear dead manzanita brush and get it ready for chipping. It’s amazing how different the manzanita groves look now. I’m really happy with how it went —…
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Friday, March 5, 2021
Today I went out to check the rain tank and discovered the replacement clean out valve was leaking in the same spot as the original. Tried to tighten it with a pipe wrench and the whole thing snapped…
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Planting extra chinquapin and more manzanita clearing Huge ground squirrel hole caused the water to rush out of my initial planting location for chinquapin... Did not end up planting here.
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Breaking down dead stuff in another section of the Manzanita grove
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