Farm Journal

Wednesday, April 7, 2021

Collected soil samples from the meadow to send off to the lab at UMass for a soil sample. I’m itching to get the results back -- the soil seems dark and loamy once you get past the sod, and I noticed…

#Mishaps #Planting

Thursday, March 25, 2021

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…

#Clearing Brush #Chipping #Water Harvesting #Mishaps

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…