Farm Journal

#Planting#Hugelkultur#Meadow Garden#Fermentation#Animals

Monday, September 20, 2021

We’ve officially transitioned the garden to fall, pulling out the remaining corn stalks and squash and beans. The tomatoes are finally producing a bunch, and the peppers keep going as well. Planning …

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#Mushrooms#Planting#Foraging#Meadow Garden

Monday, August 16, 2021

Cory and Jess moved onto the property last week and got their van all set up to live out of. It’s been nice having them around to help out. We had the craziest lightning storm I’ve ever witnessed in …

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#Wild Plants#Dogs#Meadow Garden#Planting#Travel

Monday, July 26, 2021

I woke up this morning to discover it rained a whole quarter inch last night, on top of a tenth of an inch yesterday. The smell of the rain saturated ground (petrichor, if you will) is absolutely glo…

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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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#Meadow Garden#Wild Plants#Planting

Monday, May 10, 2021

Last week we worked at breakneck speed to get the garden ready to plant this week. I continued adding to the fence and ran irrigation from the well house all the way down the hill. I ended up using 3…

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#Propagation#Grafting#Planting

Thursday, April 8, 2021

I broke out the grafting knife again yesterday and got through 15 trees, the majority of which were an unnamed local variety that I’ve dubbed Julian Red, since it is red and from Julian and that is a…

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#Planting#Seed Starting#Mishaps

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…

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#Planting#Wild Plants#Harvest

Tuesday, April 6, 2021

We talked to our neighbor about building a garden in our shared meadow yesterday, and she seems amenable to us approaching where we think the property line is, but not getting too near it. It will ma…

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#Planting#Wild Plants#Propagation

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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#Planting#Seed Starting

Friday, March 26, 2021

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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#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…

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#Planting

Wednesday, March 24, 2021

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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#Planting#Chipping

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

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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#Planting

Friday, February 19, 2021

Planting Bush Chinquapin

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#Planting#Building

Thursday, February 11, 2021

Struggling Chinquapin and Freshly Waxed table

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#Planting#Bucket Garden

Sunday, January 31, 2021

Planting Fall Gold Raspberries

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#Planting#Trees

Sunday, January 24, 2021

Planting trees (Clay soil in garden) 4 figs, 2 jujubes, 1 apple, 1 mulberry From one green world, trees were kind of root bound...

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